Timely and accurate information accessible by all participants in the markets only make them better. Daily shorts by number of shares, , Stock borrowed, % of float short, FTD (and even FTR) and changes from last report in all these categories. As a dream data point for me: cost of stock borrowing. All this date is available daily except the only way to accumulate it is to PAY a company to provide
I believe that the fines applied are like pennys for these people who commit the crimes. The fines need to start at a huge % of the profits they have made off the retail investor. Synthetic shares should NOT exist at all but in this case they should be added to short interest %. Short interest and other information should be more transparent and we should have the same information they have at
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
Thank you FINRA for opening the opportunity to comment on Regulatory Notice 21-19 to all investors. Theoughout Throughout last two years, I, along with many others, have enjoyed expanding my knowledge base of the stock market. The more I've learned about the stock matket, the less faith I have in the system. I can open an app on my smart phone anywhere in the world, send money through my
Hello FINRA, First, off thank you allowing public comment on the need to better regulate options and trades involving short positions and shorting instruments. Please let ask a simple question: If Failure to Delivers on the Threshold list can be satisfied with borrowed shares, who is the owner of the settled delivery? Why have a Threshold list at all if it is ignored when the settlement period is
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The companies reporting short interest have been shown to not follow the rules and hide their short positions in various ways. There is no good reason that any information related to the financial system should be left up to self reporting. All information should be submitted and stored automatically as transactions are carried out and it should all be of public record. This record should be
FINRA must require proper reporting of short interest by institutions, for too long have they been able to provide inaccurate self-reported misinformation(see SEC for historical offences of mislabeling Short positions as long) without oversight to push down stock values of companies. To maintain confidence in the market, this will be necessary as global interest will leave the US capital markets
Short position disclosure should be required of all market makers, hedge funds, financial institutions, etc. in the interest of a fair, free market. The fact that, even now, these institutional investors haven't been required to report short positions, dark pool trades--or even the fact that a "dark pool" is allowed to exist"--goes against the integrity of the market itself.
Every share should be given a unique identifier and accounted for. If a share is short it should be marked as loaned and short in a public database that is instantly available to the public. It doesn't have to say WHO but a unique identifier for the trader and platform would be nice. An ID that only the owner of the ID could use to make sure the ledger is valid. Another option would be to