The Manipulative Trading topic of the 2025 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
As a “retail investor”, which is a term I hate, the actions of Wall Street “professionals” over the past 6 months or longer has been eye opening to say the least. As a 43 year old man with a Bachelors degree in finance, who has taken classes on investing, stocks, mutual funds, options, bonds, and various other securities I always knew that I wanted a professional to manage my portfolio and 401k
I completely disagree with the new regulation. I reality most publicly traded stock investments are leveraged because the companies you invested in have debt on their balance sheets. The stock a person buys is in a subordinate position to the debt. This debt helps to boost yield. Just like a leveraged fund helps an investor increase yield. If Inverse funds are eliminated then the ability to short
Over the last couple of years, leveraged and inverse ETF became a trendmedously useful tool for hedging my overall investment portfolio. There are times where I just cannot send my core holdings, and inverse ETFs became a very useful tool for hedging, especially in IRA accounts. It is far easier to use and safer than Shorts and Options.
Without these inverse and leveraged ETFs, you will be
EBS Submissions Following Implementation of the Option Symbology Initiative
the current laws allow the big brokers and hedge funds to make a fortune killing small companies. one highly shorted stock, inovio (INO) has life saving cancer and covid drugs in the making, but are being hampered by shorts. please put a stop to this. make everyone play by the same rules. find a better way to keep track of stocks and how they are borrowed. i think america, and traders around the
Please please please change short position regulations to account for arranged financing of synthetic shorts. The US's economic system has become beyond strained and failure to account for synthetic shares both creates an enormous assymetry to the detriment of retail investing and also contributes to contribute malfeasance by unscrupulous hedge funds, market makers, and their enablers. FINRA
This system is being absolutely abused by short sellers and transparency is not only needed but should have already been implemented. Everyone should have access to the same data, THAT is a fair and just market. Right now the market , AMC, GME , in particular are being manipulated through the use of ETFs and FTD to stall the process of covering shorts like they should. The consequence of these
May 6 Revised submission: First let me say that I am a Roosevelt supporter (Teddy and FDR), not anti-government. I have traded ProFunds, which offer shorts and leverage, for about ten years. ProFunds is my favorite fund family. I do not care about leverage, but I do care about being able to short (inverse funds). I do not have an advisor or broker, and I never have or will. Common knowledge is
We should be able to choose the public investments that are right for us and our family. And public should be treated equal, public investment should be available to all of the public not just the privileged.
We should not go through any special process like passing a test before we can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. I am using leveraged fund to gain exposure to
