My investment experience has been limited to the last few years, so I can’t pretend to have a comprehensive understanding of every law, rule, guideline, parameter, and standard operating procedure that financial institutions operate in accordance with. However, I can say with certainty that neither do major financial institutions responsible for the behavior of our markets. If the role of a
FINRA Amends FINRA Rule 9120 and the Definition of “Hearing Officer”
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At its November 1994 meeting, the NASD Board of Governors approved the issuance of a Notice to Members soliciting comments on the National Arbitration Committee's (Committee or NAC) recommendation to establish an NASD Mediation Program to resolve
Hi, These detailed changes are very important for a lot of people. They would leave the market as a much more transparent way to invest as there would be less reliance on rumour surrounding primarily short interest and synthetic shares. The companies involved in these large amounts of share borrowing would be much more open to legal action as illegal activity would be more obvious. These changes
I would like to see changes in the reporting of shorts taken place in real time, full transparency from all investors from insiders to retail investors (with an emphasis on hedge funds), discontinued use of algorithmic trading tactics, synthetic shares, loop holes used to create selling pressure, and any other market manipulation tactics. I want to see real action taken to prevent and correct
Short interest reporting needs to be completely overhauled if we want to stay the leading market in the financial world. The current self reporting approach is laughable, and the fines for "misreporting", or what I would call lying and stealing, are a cost of doing business instead of a punishment. We have the technology to track short positions like Japan is doing with Blockchain which
I would like to express my support for FINRA's continued actions to warn investors that they may be out of their depth.
I think that such policies should be revised for the online era, however. Complex products should have category IDs or acronyms associated with their structure, and online sites for the products should be required to list the acronyms corresponding to the product. There
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On February 17, 1984, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission" or "SEC") approved 1/ new Article III, Section 38 of the Association's Rules of Fair Practice, an Explanation of the Board of Governors, and an amendment to the Code of Procedure for Handling Trade Practice Complaints ("Code of Procedure"). These rule changes are
I am capable of understand leveraged and inverse funds and should not be made to "jump through hoops" in order to continue trading as I wish. If you must regulate access to these funds please do not target your regulations at those of us whose trading accounts clearly demonstrate we are performing in line with the market.
That being said I agree there is a problem with
