All short positions, including naked short positions created as part of bona fide market making activities, should be created on a lit exchange and reported in their entirety. The term "bona fide market making activity" should be defined by the regulator very specifically. The purpose of creating a naked short position in market making is to give an IOU for that share, and then to
Short selling is an unnecessary practice and should be completely illegal. Blah blah blah “it prevents muh bubble”. [REDACTED]. We’re in a bubble already. The entire market is a sham to funnel money from poor people into the hands of [REDACTED] bankers and techno oligarchs who want to enslave us. Short selling is basically the equivalent of a [REDACTED] light switch. All short sellers should be
Saw this comment in one of the previous comments so I decided to use the same verbiage. “ Hello FINRA, I saw you are looking for comments on 21-19, regarding short positions. As I see it, the current US market is full of nothing but fraud, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit through their complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation through naked
Hello FINRA, I saw you are looking for comments on 21-19, regarding short positions. As I see it, the current US market is full of nothing but fraud, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit through their complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation through naked short selling by large hedgefunds like Citadel and Susquehana being allowed to happen
*Short positions should be reported daily. I feel that this will provide more insight to the existence of Naked Shorts. *Synthetic Short Positions should most assuredly be reported. *Short volume should be capped and the cap kept low to allow for organic and transparent trading and limit the opportunity to manipulate the stock. *Dark pools should no longer be allowed. *Days on loan should be
Hello, As you know the Stocks GME/AMC are being extremly shorted to a point where the Share price is being manipulated by Hedge Fonds. Today Dark pool trading for Amc reached 60%. These tatics are used to Short the stock extremly, we also call this method short laddder attacks and it's highly illeagel. SO please do your jobs and watch Hedge Fonds like Citadeal closely
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I have been investing a long time and have bought individual stocks, bonds, ETFs. I have shorted the Market through ETFs. I realize the risks involved. Currently we are in a period where the major market indices are falling. Now is the perfect time to protect part of your portfolio with an ETF that shorts the market. It is like insurance on your home. The goal is to protect your investment. I
There is no need for FINRA to deny or block regular investors from investing in leveraged funds or complex products. I have been investing in them for years with no issues. The only thing FINRA should do is make illegal "naked" shorting of securities, commodities, or bonds. Naked shorting only serves the purpose of taking companies down or destroying commodities prices. Why this was
No naked shorts. More frequently posted information on short sales
