In a free market people are allowed to short the market. Inverse ETFs are a much-needed product for people who don't want to use margin and don't want to short and want to leave it to the professionals to short. Free markets go up and down and any investor or Trader should have the ability to buy and sell based on technical analysis. To disallow inverse and triple inverse ETFs
Comments: I think that L&I funds should still be readily available to retail customers without restrictions. I have done my own due diligence, as I think all investors should, in regards to understanding the products and if they are suitable for me. I understand throughly that leveraged products are not meant to be utilized for a long term investment due to the negative drag built
Make SI private and only for the purpose of enduring that shares held short are not greater than the float. Investors are tired of the memesters manipulating markets trying to force shorts to cover/margin calls.
Could we also make brokers/dealers notify their customers when their shares get shorted? Alternative, they could provide a disclaimer that such shares may be shorted and provide an option to opt out.
Short positions should be updated intra-daily, full transparency. The fact that short sellers, marketmakers, and dark pool traders are in fact the same entity is mind-blowing. Level the playing field already!
I understand the risks involved with these types of investments.
With the ones I hold, I am hoping for interest rates to go up. No matter what type of security I purchase I can loose money. Stocks are shorted Bonds are shorted so what's the difference.
I request that ALL shorting must be reported daily, and that ALL dark pool trading must be reported daily. Also all dark pool trading MUST be bought and sold within the dark pool, or all LIT trading is bought and sold in the LIT market. Not trading all the buy orders into the dark pool and sells into the LIT market. Honestly the dark pool should not even exist. Shorting needs to be redone as well
FINRA is about as effective as a mall cop, police but have no teeth. Fines companies millions for crimes that made them billions. 3 generations have been short sold down the river. We would not have as many poor folks or homeless if the hedge funds didn't short companies to BK. Dark Pool trading has allowed hedge funds to short well past being a market maker. One hedge fund donates 70
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Regulatory Obligations and Related Considerations
Regulatory Obligations
Rules 203(b) (Short sales) and 204 (Close-out requirement) of Regulation SHO provide exceptions for bona fide market making activity. The SEC has provided guidance on what constitutes “bona fide market making activities” as well as examples of what does not; member firms must also confirm and be able to
It doesn't make sense in the information age to only make public short interest data on such a low cadence per month. There needs to be stricter requirements on mandating report of short interest. Thank you.
