We all want fairness in the market. No more rules that protect big money from any culpability when taking advantage of access to market features that retail investors don’t have. Conflicts of interest such as market makers shorting stocks they hold the books for, t-2 settlement dates, 15 day short reports, and most importantly, darkpool order rerouting of retail investor buy orders must be
Things FINRA should implement: 1. Automated daily reporting of short positions 2. Automated daily reporting of all trading in Dark Pools 3. Automated daily reporting of synthetic shares/naked shorting 4. FTD should be delivered T+2, no exceptions. 5. All data accessible to the public in real time. 6. Force all Market Makers to give retail investors routing options on trades. (option to have your
There needs to be away for people who are unable to sell stocks short to short the market during bear conditions Removing the use of inverse and leveraged funds further disadvantages individual investors and would continue to demonstrate the regulatory agencies' support of big market players
I believe any additional oversight or reporting requirements in regard to short positions would be a net positive. Abusive shorting of securities has both introduced idiosyncratic risk and reduced faith in the integrity of United States financial markets.
These rules are essential for retail traders to have a chance at Making money in the market by themselves. Hidden short and synthetic short position set up retail for failure. It would be great to see FINRA adopt and enforce these rules
I am commenting in regards to particular aspects of FINRA 21-19, which I do support and believe should have been enacted long ago. Undoubtedly, the public’s faith in the United States market has been diminishing following the many preventable financial crises that have occurred in the past. The ongoing state of the market from retail investors points of view, frankly appears broken and has failed
The fact that hedge funds can manipulate a stock with short selling stocks that are not even available is a crime that needs to be punished. This is not a new senerio but one that has been overlooked for a long time. Now millions of retail investors have realized the fraud and are demanding action. If this is not rectified the retail investor will pull out of the stock market as it is not a level
Shorting as a market practice is a ridiculous concept to begin with because in no other area of a capitalist market can You borrow something that is already owned and then sell it, only to buy it back at a lower price to intentionally profit off of the original lender. That aside, self reporting clearly isn't working, and the ability for borrowed stock to be mis-marked, intentionally or
Shorting as a market practice is a ridiculous concept to begin with because in no other area of a capitalist market can you borrow something that is already owned and then sell it, only to buy it back at a lower price to intentionally profit off of the initial lender. That aside, self reporting clearly isn’t working, and the ability for borrowed stock to be mis-marked, intentionally or otherwise
Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment strategy. It's a convenient way to short a group of stocks or bonds. It's much more difficult and risky to short individual stocks as a retail investor. Please don't take away my rights as a small investor.
