Finra should be monitoring short sellers and hedge funds more closely and more frequently and should be disclosing short positions on at least a t+3 basis including dark pool transactions. Also finra should mandate much more transparency in the market including but not limited to taking away the ability of hedge funds to hide short positions by not accurately disclosing their positions in reports
Short-selling of stocks should be abolished. The practice is damaging because it artificially lowers stock prices. The practice of profiting from a company's failures is immoral. By selling shares that they do not possess, short-sellers temporarily reduce stock prices, because if those transactions had not occurred, fewer shares would be available for buyers to purchase. Short-sellers
Report short positions for a company they need to be enforced. Company's are super overleveraged and they are hiding these transactions and masking their short positions/Naked shorts to manipulate the stock market. Retail traders are the backing of these companies Like AMC and GME yet these institutions can do whatever they want behind closed doors.
Your proposed regulations of inverse and leveraged funds are unnecessary. The prospectuses already give adequate warning of the risks involved in these investments. Your proposed regulation would prevent people like me from benefiting from the investment strategies offered by inverse and leveraged funds. The use of these types of funds also provide a way for IRAs to short markets. Without these
1. Please abolish SHORT SALES 2. If abolishing short sales is not possible, please make the short sale positions of hedge funds and institutions PUBLIC, RELIABLE and Accountable. 3. Please serve the US public and humans across the globe by taking serious action against criminals - not just with a fine of $10,000 for a crime that amount to $1 Billion.
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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 identities of funds that have open short positions and their sizes. This would operate similarly to the way longs and options
Short sale reporting should require actual shares to be in their position to short. Reporting should consolidate every trading day to ensure there is only 100% of the float in circulation. Naked shorting should be a fine at a 15% of the firms last year revenue earned. In addition repeat violations should increase in 30% to impact the firms overall bottom line to ensure it is not the cost of doing
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I support a far more rigorous disclosure regime when it comes to Short Sale Reporting. As a non-American investor I've been shocked by the harm blatant naked shorting does through rigged financial markets and hopeless under-regulation. If large scale changes won't happen my trust in the American financial markets will not return. In that case I'll never invest again and will spend
