Please allow me to continue purchasing Leveraged ETFs. They make up a large part of my portfolio, and have for years. They are very useful both for short term trades and longer term investments. Moreover, I am not fond of shorting individual stocks, but inverse ETFs fit my needs entirely. Thanks you for reading.
I think the dark pool abuse and insider training needs to stop. I'm investing in clov a and tlry and hedge fund management seems to be manipulating price of share with shares that don't exist. Ex. Buying up short shares and short interest that's not there is manipulation of the markets.
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.
The way the stock market is set up for the larger entities to easily outweigh performance of the average retail trader is completely absurd. With stocks that are being massively shorted, much like Tesla (TSLA) was back a few years ago, and other stocks now like Gamestop (GME), AMC Theater (AMC) , Nokia (NOK) and many more, it allows such a distrust in the system for who can make money FAIRLY. If
Current total short interest updated no less than once per day. Short position averages as well as amounts sorted by length held. Ie: 400k shorted shares still uncovered/ current position lifespan 24 days. Total disclosure of what exactly is being pushed through dark pools. It's on par with financial terrorism, fraud, theft, and the like. Absolutely disgusting how our regulators sit back and
In the current environment of overvalued stocks and bonds across the board, the winning strategy is short everything. You want to take that away, right now, at the top of this massive bubble?
Regulators, the Government, and the FED got us in this mess. Now, the only good option is going short. I understand the risks. And I want you people to stay out of my way.
It is in the public's best interest that hedge funds are NOT allowed to short, or delay communicating their shorts, or hiding them in dark pools or married puts to prevent covering. At the end of the day, it's the American people that end up paying for their dirty deeds, either by losing their companies/jobs/pensions. This is and is legal robbery!
Track each share purchased with a universal number or identifier. Shorting a share must have a high collateral requirement which should be verified. Every order should be delivered T+2 or fails mean huge penalty. Every short position should be updated with FINRA daily.
Finra regulations must be updated to be more stringent when it comes to the reporting of short positions. This included positions created synthetically. It would also be important to address the reporting of how the borrowing process occurs and through what entities, to prevent manipulation of stocks via over shorting said stocks.
While more reporting around Short Interest Positions is to be encouraged and applauded, unless the market "plumbing" that allows failures-to-deliver to continue in perpetuity is also addressed, these changes will not solve the underlying problem. Address short interest reporting AND the failures-to-deliver problem if you really want to fix this issue.
