Transparency. Naked shorts should be included in the short count. All shorts should be reported.
FINRA Requests Comment on Proposed Amendments to the Quantitative Suitability Obligation Under FINRA Rule 2111
While short sales can be an important market mechanic to send signals to protect investors from corrupt or inept corporate leadership, hidden short sales and hidden synthetic short sales work against a free and fair marketplace. If institutional and "big money" investors detect reasons to believe that the future success of a company is unlikely, hiding their short positions at best
While short sales can be an important market mechanic to send signals to protect investors from corrupt or inept corporate leadership, hidden short sales and hidden synthetic short sales work against a free and fair marketplace. If institutional and "big money" investors detect reasons to believe that the future success of a company is unlikely, hiding their short positions at best
Shares need to have a traceable ID number, and shares that are shorted need to report that ID. I don't know how naked shorts get created by i do know that a stock like AMC shouldn't be shorting multi-millions of shares per day for months and months but never change SI% more than a few percent. There was one day this week there were literally 50 million shorts sold, 10% of the entire
Thank you for that introduction, and thank you all for coming. As all of you know, we are at an important moment in the debate over financial regulation and the future profile of financial markets in the United States, and throughout the world. So I am pleased to have this opportunity to share some of my thoughts about where we've been and where we can hopefully go.
1. Disclosures of short positions by institutions and hedge funds on a shorter time window (preferably daily) 2. Much heftier fines for participating in the illegal practice of naked shorting 3. More regulations of dark pools and the creation of synthetics shares 4. Daily reports on margin and those who are over leveraged in a short position 5. More up to date reporting and transparency in
I am shocked to hear that the regulators are considering restrictions to leveraged funds. Leveraged funds are significantly safer compared to option trades and outright shorting. For example, I use TQQQ to go long and SQQQ to go short NASDAQ, instead of outright shorting NDX. Imagine amount of capital required by small investor who wants to short NDX - or QQQ for that matter - there is no better
The use of dark pools as a tool for price suppression is overwhelmingly clear. Market manipulation is actively taking place and the free reign of large organizations to process transactions off-exchange is essentially cheating the system. Additionally, there is basically no real, enforceable regulation on the shorting of stocks. Through aggressive shorting, powerful entities can drive many
I agree with the proposed changes. Data on Short positions should be reported every day including synthetic short positions/naked shorts.
