Dear FINRA, I am very concerned to learn about possible upcoming restrictions regarding my ability, as an independent small investor, to use complex investments such as leveraged and inverse ETFs. I am scared that these public investments will cease to be available to normal people like me and reserved only for a "privileged elite" of super-rich people and institutions to get richer. I
Comments: Dear FINRA, I have been investing in stocks and options for over 30 years and have used leveraged or inverse products for the last 20 years. The proposed regulations and or guardrails for what you call complex products would undoubtedly disrupt the existence of these products and future development of these products. L&I ETF's have given me the opportunity to
For the continued health of the market, transparency of short positions needs to be established.
I request more up to date and transparent short interest data.
Further reporting should be required for short positions and failure to delivers
More transparency with the whole process more detail on short positions
All short positions should be reported and made public. Simple as that.
I would like the reporting of short positions to be public. Thank you.
Please do something about the illegal shorts. Thank you
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Intermarket Surveillance Group
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KEY TOPICS
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Senior Management
Blue Sheets
Executive Summary
This Notice to Members discusses new uniform provisions regarding the automated reporting requirement for Electronic Blue Sheets (EBS).
Effective August 8, 2001 all members were required to:
(1)
