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Publication Date: June 17, 2025Interpretations are marked in blue background beneath the rule text to which they relate. 17a-3 Records to be made by certain exchange members, brokers and dealers.This section applies to the following types of entities: A member of a national securities exchange who transacts a business in securities directly with others than members of a national
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Jon Kroeper, Executive Vice President, Quality of Markets, is leaving FINRA, effective at year end, to pursue other opportunities.
All of that should already be in place. Synthetic shorts are an illegal practice anyways, so reporting them would just oust the form doing them thus implicating them in a crime. But yes they should be reported; As the amount of synthetic shares could and most like does in fact dwarf the actual share count of a particular stock if the hedge funds are trying to bankrupt them. Examples being
I honestly have been losing faith in our stock market in general and want to bring integrity back to our markets. If shares aren’t properly reported and have the ability to be manipulated on a mass scale then what’s the point of the every day investor even attempting to do anything?? My comment would be to enforce the law on ALL of us not just some. If naked shorting or selling of stocks they
the T2 system on short information needs to be T0 and live or at least updated hourly. FTD submissions should be daily on a T1 system. Large institutions have a huge advantage to see live market data and can act fast, swift, and often negatively affecting the retail investors experience with the stock market. Everyone should have equal opportunity to see live market action and data to make a
While appreciative of the gesture, there must be action behind it. We are in a new era of retail investing and the rules still favor the Goliath's of wall street. Complete transparency and equality in the reporting of data must be enforced. Retail should have the same access to information, data and tools that hedge funds and market makers have access to. More importantly, ACCOUNTABILITY for
Over the past 6 months I have been investing a relatively small portion of my portfolio in leveraged inverse funds to hedge other portfolio positions.
It is difficult to understand how regulators would presume to require a 'test' or other special requirement to invest in these tools.
Certainly, leverage has risks. Certainly, stocks have risks. If you can't accept that
FINRA Amends FINRA Rule 9120 and the Definition of “Hearing Officer”
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