All investors should have the opportunity it go long or short, based on their views of companies and/or the economy. These proposals feel more like an effort to limit short selling, which of course some folks have high financial motivation to want. If you want to protect retail investors, start focusing on the large banks on wall street who manipulate retail investors all the time through other
Comments: I believe that access to leveraged and inverse funds has helped me hedge my portfolio. Without these products my portfolio would slide to zero. Do not make any changes in this volatile environment. There is no need to enhance any rules.
Do not restrict or disqualify my right to trade these products.
The purpose is short term active hedging.
Brokerage firms provide sufficient
Melvin Capital complaint - lack of reporting regarding naked short positions leading to chart manipulation through darkpools. I hope something is done about behavior indicative of intentional malevolent chart manipulation by hedge funds developing bad risk analysis putting the broader markets in jeopardy by aggressively naked shorting stock with little regard for who's money they are putting
I do not want to see companies fined for breaking rules and laws. For instance, if a company is found to be naked shorting, it should be forced to close all short positions immediately. Failure to do so should result in prison time for senior staff. If I counterfeit a dollar I go to prison. The same should apply if I counterfeit a share. If law enforcement took a cut of my counterfeit dollar,
Funds need to report when they are short. Daily weekly monthly I do not care but it must be reported. If long positions and options need to be reported short positions should too. Beyond that any other positions should be reported. It is crazy what we all the rich elite to get away with. They make the rules and police themselves. So unfair, hence why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
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
Dear FINRA,
I am not interested in government regulators mandating which products I am allowed to investment in or not invest in. I am not interested in passing your tests or other arbitrary performances for you to demonstrate that I am capable of doing what I choose to do with my money. Did any investors actually ask for you to intervene on this matter? Please keep your fingers out of my
The market rules need an overhaul. Penalties for failure to return shares should be steeper base on how much you're shorting. If someone shorting a stock for 100k, a ten thousand dollars fine seems reasonable. But if I'm shorting the stock by millions or billions they shouldn't be paying 10k for breaking the rules.. matter of fact they should not be breaking the rules in the first
FINRA Reminds Firms of Sales Practice Obligations Relating to Leveraged and Inverse Exchange-Traded Funds
I am a new retail investor but I have found quickly a strong sentiment of unfair trading practices and market manipulation by hedge funds that leaves retail traders at significant disadvantages. I appreciate the efforts on behalf of FINRA and the SEC to eliminate these events of malpractice by enforcing the rules that are currently in place, as well as, providing the public with more accurate and
