• Extended Hours Trading Risk Disclosure—Failure to Comply With Rule Requirements
• Anti-Intimidation/Coordination—Failure to Comply With Rule Requirements
• Backing Away
• Best Execution—Failure to Comply With Requirements for Best Execution
• ECN Display Rule—Failure to Comply
Thanks to the meme stocks community. I have learned so much about the stock market. The Senate Financial Committee investigation into naked short selling found that hedge funds, brokers, and banks were creating 1 billion phantom shares everyday. They recommended an easy method to track all shorted shares. Yet, nothing happened after 13 years, and hedge funds continue to get a slap on the wrist
The FINRA Board of Governors will consider the following rulemaking items at its July 2011 meeting. After the July 14 meeting, FINRA will notify firms via email about the Board’s actions on these items and anticipated next steps, if any.
Institutions should be punished up to over 100% of their order amount and lose license to trade for naked short selling Institutions should not be able to hide their short positions using covered calls Short positions should be reported everyday
Systematic short attacks on the retail investor should be illegal. Synthetic shorts have flooded the marketplace. Minimalistic fines are outdated & corrupting the American economy vicariously by encouraging such activity giving short sellers a slap on the wrist for robbing Americans.
Reporting of Customer Complaints Relating to Auction Rate Securities; Effective Date: April 1, 2008
Here are a few suggestions to help regulate and enforce short sales that have gotten out of control in my opinion. 1. Reduce the reporting period to weekly (or preferably daily) from biweekly. 2. Require that exchanges report failures to deliver and naked shorts alongside covered shorts. 3. Reduce the holding period for reported days from 4 days to 2 or fewer. 4. Document and release the
There are no rules. Why even have all of this? Naked shorting continues, dark pool trading is out of control. EVERYTHING is set up for the institutions and the super rich to get richer, and the retail investor to be left holding a bag. The institutions are allowed to continue to gamble recklessly and get bailed out when it doesn’t go their way. There needs to be real change in the system to be
I use inverse etfs to hedge my portfolio. Similar to long only etfs, it allows short position across a broader spectrum than a single stock short position. In my circumstance, understanding and managing the risks of utilizing an inverse etf are a much better way to manage downside risk than the complexity of shorting individual stocks.
I notice you are welcoming comments on regulatory notice 21-19 regarding short positions.In my opinion, the current US financial system is highly fraudulent, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit by complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation through naked short selling by large hedge funds like Citadel and Susquehanna being allowed to happen with
