More transparency on short positions is necessary. Long positions are able to be seen by all. Retail deserves the same transparency on both positions.
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Unequal Long and Short Positions
Members must report any account or accounts acting "In Concert" that hold over 200 contracts on either the long call/short put (bullish) or the short call/long put (bearish) side of the market. A member must report every subsequent change in the account’s end of day (exchange traded
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Dear Finra, I request you make short selling data more transparent, updated and available to the public. Thank you. Malik.
I support these proposals in general, and the proposals to require short interest reporting daily, and to require clearinghouses to report fail to deliver data, specifically.
I want accurate short interest update everyday just like I pay for stock when I buy. Give me a fair market.
To keep it simple, shorting rules and regulations need to be updated and brought up to speed. Reporting should be done faster and more efficiently.
Daily short reporting Bigger - significant fines for false reporting. 1:1 with share price so they cannot consider it as “cost of business”
Using proshares makes it quick and easy for me to hedge my positions in a down market by buying some sdow or sqqq. Whether going long or short it simplifies things for me.
I have used ProFunds for over 20 years now. Proshares inverse and leveragedlong funds have been around a long time and they give me the flexibility to do what I want and invest how I want and they are neat and beneficial and provide clear and non-dangerous opportunities to invest, hedge, and participate in many indexes and sectors of the market. I have helped run a hedge fund that could use short
