Summary
On May 16, 2022, FINRA announced via Election Notice 05/16/22 upcoming elections to fill one Small Firm Governor seat and one Large Firm Governor seat on the FINRA Board of Governors (FINRA Board).
The Large Firm Governor nominee, Christopher W. Flint, has changed firm affiliations and no longer qualifies to run for reelection to the FINRA Board. FINRA’s Nominating & Governance
I understand the value of short selling. I understand it is a mechanism to root out unsavory characters that may be using subversive tactics to artificially prop up a stock/ security, however I do not understand why, in 2021 we as retail investors do not have access to the same information at the same time as institutional investors? how is that a free market? again its 2021 and we have internet
Effective Monday, August 29, 2022, the FINRA TRACE, ADF and ORF Web API reference data downloads will no longer be accessible using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.1 protocol. FINRA will disable TLS 1.1, and firms using that protocol will not be able to establish connectivity to FINRA’s secure web servers to download the files. To gain access to the FINRA API reference data downloads, firms
I currently feel that this needs to tracked more accurately and made public. I personally feel like things are done illegally and this would atleast help make things more transparent. Have also seen suspicious activity done on sort sale restrictions days (selling millions of shares worth of deep in the money calls to force market makers to short a stock to remain delta neutral). I'm not sure
If the US market looks to be seen as a free market we need to have transparency. Dark pool trading has gone on unregulated to the point of becoming a place where institutional investors can go to hide their elicit trades; this needs to end. All authorized shares should be able to be accounted for at any given time during market hours. Fines and penalties for FTDs and naked shorting of stocks
Transparency and fairness for all investors is all anyone wants. What has been happening over the last 6 months in certain stocks is unbelievable. Hedge funds need/must be held responsible for their actions when it come to FTD's naked shorting, etc. just the same as retail traders must follow the rules set forth by the governing body. Please this is huge for the US trading markets and will
Shorting as a market practice is a crazy concept. No other capitalist market allows borrowing something that one person owns, sell it, buy it back at a lower price to profit off their initial lender. Self reporting clearly isn’t working and the ability to borrow stock is way mis-marked. Everything should be labeled and marked in real time so the corruption can be stopped and we play a fair game
Need better eyes on massive shorted stocks regulations blocking naked shares and a sec representative mandatory at every hedge fund Corporation. From what I'm seeing you guys are either paid off or don't know what the [REDACTED] you're looking for. Billions of dollars being stolen from retail investors for more years than you can count on your fingers and nobody has done squat to
Summary
FINRA and the other U.S. members of the Intermarket Surveillance Group1 (ISG members) are enhancing the Electronic Blue Sheets (EBS) to improve their ability to analyze broker-dealers’ trading activities.
Effective immediately, firms will be required to update certain data elements for EBS to reflect the SEC’s May 10, 2019, and May 4, 2020, approvals of Long Term Stock Exchange
Please stop restricting investors from gaining access to ETFs with complex strategies including leverage and shorting sectors, stocks, commodities, etc. Increasing regulation just empowers the wealthy and financial organizations to be the only ones that can benefit from more diverse financial strategies which are needed especially now. I have built my retirement because of access to a broad range
