This proposal is just another attempt to restrict the options, retail investors have to invest in the market. Large institutions have always had a clear advantage, privy to information first, flash trading etc. Restricting retail investor's ability to short or long the markets using these types of vehicles is, once again giving the institutions the upper hand in playing in a field they
On this issues presented, my comments are: Short Interest Positions: I feel that short interest positions should be reported as all other positions are reported. There are videos of former hedge fund managers(Jim Cramer) admitting that psychological manipulation and misinformation are essential tools for a hedge fund to create narratives in the media for the purpose of manipulating a stock.
MARGIN CALLS. MAKE THEM CLOSE SHORT POSITIONS. RESTRICT TRADING ON OFF MARKET EXCHANGES (dark pool) FORCE OVERLEVERAGED SHORT POSITIONS TO BE CLOSED AND LIQUIDATED
In not in agreement how shorts are been managed and how SEC are filling rules and there’s no action to thw hedge funds that are shorting. The system is confrontating manipulation and needs to be addressed
Please do not place new restrictions on leveraged or inverse ETFs and traditional mutual funds.
As mutual funds, both ETFs and traditionals are well-regulated and their fee structures are transparent. They are also easy to use through many brokerages.
For an investor who at times wants to use leverage or an inverse position for a short period of time, inverse and leveraged mutual funds are the
Current rules/regulations that are in place to monitor/report short selling and positions associated with short selling are entirely inadequate. Rules in place that allow for many loop-holes including short exempt, married calls/puts and dark pool activity + high frequency trading leaves currently regulations looking like swiss-cheese. Abuse from market makers and hedgefunds that are paid in gold
Hello, As a full-time investment portfolio manager for the last 15 years, I feel like this entire filing is yet another moot point. No matter which valid point I bring up, the Commission will only find it invalid, however, here goes nothing: I respectfully advise the Commission to re-think the overall goal in respect to their job function. You're asking for comment on something very little
All reporting should be live and up to date always. Funds need to stop shorting companies into the ground. No trading of synthetic anything. It’s just being maliciously abused by market makers. No shorting in unregulated exchanges. I’m sure there’s many more, but it’s hard to keep track of all the felonious behavior. Retail traders are being robbed of their money all over the market by things not
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
The Securities and Exchange Commission has recently approved amendments to Section 4 of Appendix A, Article III, Section 30 of the Association's Rules of Fair Practice that relates to minimum margin requirements for option contracts on a market or industry index. These amendments which became effective on April 13, 1984 establish minimum
Greetings, Shorting as a market practice is unfair and illogical. How can a person sell what they do not own? That should not be legal and seems like fraud, to be blunt. Self-reporting also does not seem to be working, and the ability for borrowed stock to be mis-marked is a serious issue. Shares need a better marking system to denote “borrowed” and “sold while borrowed (shorted)”, and a running
