FINRA’s rules should be modernized to address economic costs, evolving markets, technology advancements, and regulatory inefficiencies. Below are key areas for modernization, including specific rules, guidance updates, and regulatory overlaps that warrant attention.1. Focus Areas for Modernizing FINRA RulesSeveral FINRA rules are outdated, overly burdensome, or fail to account for modern trading
Short interest need to not be self reported. There should be investigations every day or at least weekly to see how these hedge funds and market makers are influencing stock prices. Naked shorting is a disgusting practice that has caused economic crashes in the past. We need to learn from our past mistakes. The formula for calculating short interest needs to be fixed to show the actual number of
We would love to see short sale institutional/hedge fund data be reported just as the regulations require long positions 13F filings in order to file and finalize a purchase. Currently we have an issue where naked shorts have been created in several stocks across the market, but could be better regulated by requiring such filing so be submitted before large scale institutional short positions are
Stop allowing naked shorting that’s NOT REPORTED and stop allowing a short position to be pushed out further using more options and avoiding fail to delivers ALL WHILE NOT BEING REPORTED. No one should be able able to short a stock over 100% of the float and yet when it happens everyone looks the other way. So why should they stop? Slapping on the wrist with a small multi million dollar fine
I have been investing for 20+ years and I am retired and manage my own portfolio. I rarely use reverse or leveraged stocks but sometimes that is the only way I have to protect my portfolio. I understand the risks but I ALSO know the risks of not protecting not protecting it. I do not short stocks because that has unlimited risks also. Please leave the system alone so we retail investors can
SSR is a solid rule especially for organic trading between bulls and bears. More often than not, when the SSR is triggered, it’s caused by a malicious entity aggressively shorting the stock. Obviously the annoying thing is that SSR doesn’t stop the shorting, it almost doesn’t affect its momentum. Big trading firms will use an aggressive short ladder attack to bypass SSR… Nothing is necessarily
Of particular interest is the section on Synthetic Short Positions. It seems that approved participants can use synthetics to improve market liquidity, but it also creates a problem of diluting the stock when the shorts fail to deliver. Would position reporting also help to track FTD's better and implement some regulation to have those failures sufficiently resolved before more synthetics
Please check out manipulative short selling activity on stocks $NURO, $MMAT, $MRIN. The abusive short selling activity has forced price declines in unreasonable amounts and time frames. Please do something about this to protect the interests of us small time retail investors. Appreciate your assistance . Respectfully, DV
Hello. I would like to see all short interest positions reported with a T+1. Transparency in the stock market is important and currently there is too much hidden from the general public. Please make the changes necessary for the public to believe in fairness in the stock market. Because currently, the general public believe it's heavily skewed towards those individuals/institutions with more
I have been investing a long time and have bought individual stocks, bonds, ETFs. I have shorted the Market through ETFs. I realize the risks involved. Currently we are in a period where the major market indices are falling. Now is the perfect time to protect part of your portfolio with an ETF that shorts the market. It is like insurance on your home. The goal is to protect your investment. I
