All short positions should be reported including synthetics (why does that even exist). Every share should have a unique identifier that can’t be lent out multiple times (like we used to have with physical paper). Maybe we could have a free capitalist economy if competition was allowed and the best companies perform the best. A company shouldn’t be shorted and driven to bankruptcy because someone
First, any organization or entity should have five times the amount of collateral to support a short position. Dark pools where synthetic shares are utilized to manipulate market share price to falsely depict covering of shorts should be deemed illegal and regulations should be placed to cease and detect. If an entity fails to deliver on a short position, their position should be liquidated and
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
I'm a retail investor. From my perspective, the entire reason for the (increasingly public) debate over short-selling regulations stems from the loopholes in reporting that are being exploited to the detriment of investors at all levels and to the detriment of the integrity of American markets at large. In this context, I believe the language in this Notice does not go far enough to allay my
Short positions should be required to report more regularly and the short interest of a stock should be known rather than estimated every other week.
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
Once again, Goldman Sach, et alia, will run amok and smackdown all of us. They'll say buy as they are shorting and buying and when they say buy they'll be shorting and buying.
Shame on you!
I'm writing to request more transparency, fairness and accountability in our financial markets, as all of us rely on our regulatory entities for that assurance. There are some things that are of particular interest to me: 1. Transparency of Buy/Sell orders in the market as a whole, including but not limited to OTC/ATS off market trading. 2. Information market makers have when it comes to
FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective
All, FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and
