Isn't naked shorting illegal? Isn't it the SEC and FINRA's job to investigate and enforce? Please do your job. There is a go fund me page soliciting funds to pay for an attorney to investigate GME and AMC naked shorting when taxpayer dollars are already being spent to fund the SEC. Do your job. Everyone is watching.
Daily short reporting. None of this every 15 days. Also eliminate this T+2 reporting nonsense so they can naked short in the days between. No more illegal stuff. If we rob a bank or store WE GO TO JAIL OR PRISON. IF THEY ROB US ... They pay a $1000 fine and go back to work ... meanwhile they added millions in profit.
Stop short sales and naked short sales, If a company holds the opposite position. If the company has a half a billion in puts and half a billion in calls, it's a SCAM! STOP THE LOOPHOLES THAT ALLOWS COMPANIES, LIKE CITADEL, TO ENDLESSLY LEND THE SAME SHARES AND SELL THE SAME SHARES WITHOUT DELIVERING THE MONEY! IT IS THEFT! RETROACTIVELY HOLD THEM RESPONSIBLE!!
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: NASD would like to thank the committee for the invitation to submit this written statement for the record.
How about you just make this a simple thing... Instead of financial institutions SELF-REPORTING their short positions, why not actually have a regulatory body go directly into their books, so they can properly extrapolate the information. This way you can monitor things like married puts/calls that create synthetic shorts, and be on top of them on a daily basis.
I urge FINRA to put in place daily short percentage update requirements and reporting. I believe this will strengthen our marketplace and help our great American businesses fight manipulative overleveraged shorting. I also believe Failure to Delivers should get reported as often as possible and should be investigated quickly and effectively. Thanks for your time and consideration.
Restrictions need to be placed on shorts to prevent overleverage ASAP especially to the degree that AMC is right now. If any normal person to out a loan and over leverage it banks would be at our throats to receive their money. Why is it treating any different with short sellers. The act of bankrupting a company without full transparency of all positions should be illegal.
I'd like to see the market have more transparency of shorts. In today's day and age, there should be 8-15 days to see a company's short percentage. The market information should be available to all investors no matter their size. Also, I feel that the "dark pool" system should be abolished. It too can possibly create uncertainty in the market. Thank you.
Amendments to NASD, NASD Regulation, and NASD Dispute Resolution By-Laws Relating to Divestiture of American Stock Exchange
Dark pool should go away permanently. Naked shorts should be fined 100% of current value at time of shorting. When market confidence erodes to a critical level, foreign investors and all retail investors will pull their money from the shady operations on Wall Street…we are approaching the critical level. If all of the corruption is allowed unchecked, there will be consequences eventually.
