Short sellers need to be regulated and held to same standards as retail investors. Short positions time held and when returned/covered/closed should be reported publicly daily. Synthetic share shorts and naked shorting needs to be eliminated. Accountability for FTDs including who is failing to deliver and when fixed. Stop allowing shorting through ETFs.
Board Re-Elects Chair, Re-Appoints Public Governors, and Approves Three Rulemaking Items
WASHINGTON—FINRA’s Board of Governors met on July 12-13 for the third time in 2023. During the meeting, the Board re-elected Eric Noll as Board Chair, re-appointed three public governors and approved three rulemaking items. The Board also continued its engagement with key stakeholders, hearing from
In an effort to communicate technical changes to its trade reporting and quotation facilities - TRACE, ORF, and ADF (and related systems) with FINRA member firms, FINRA is introducing a new web page, on FINRA.org, where firms may review upcoming market transparency initiatives. This page will be updated on a regular basis in addition to technical notices that will continue to be posted and
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Options Position and Exercise Limits
Effective Date: February 28, 2005
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Delta Hedging
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Fail to deliver data should be reported more frequently preferably daily. Also short seller data should be far more transparent, require daily reporting of short positions, no longer allow covering shorts with options contracts, and the short sale reduction rule should be overhauled to not allow short selling at all once triggered.
SEC Approval and Effective Date for New Consolidated FINRA Rules Regarding Margin Requirements, Daily Record of Required Margin, and Extension of Time Requests
I understand that short selling is viewed as important to the health of the stock market; however, when it is used to maliciously attack retail investors, it should in no way be legal. The existence of naked short selling remains a recurrent problem for many stocks, AMC and GME being two of the most notorious. If there is even the possibility of naked shorting, shorting should immediately be
Enforce the margin calls on shorts that are way out of money. If someone has a short at $20 and the stock is at $70, they shouldn't be able to short more before they cover their previous loosing shorting positions. Also prohibit share borrowing from cash accounts, my shares are my own and I don't want to lend them out to shorts... That's like shooting myself in the foot.
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