Hello, I have no affiliations with professional investing, I just started getting into it last year at the height of the pandemic. With that said, there is an obvious disregard for being truthful about short selling due to recent events and am happy you re looking to retail investors to get their take. Either a daily or weekly report that is NOT self reported would be best. Self reporting seems
FINRA Requests Comment on FINRA Rules Impacting Capital Formation
I have been investing for myself and my family for years and use leveraged and inverse funds as part of an overall portfolio strategy. These types of funds should be available to the general public without any additional onerous rules to use them. Hedging strategies are important to use in certain circumstances and they should not only be available to the privileged few. Regulators should be
Quit trying to help or protect me the "small" individual investor. Restricting my access to protect my portfolio by restricting access to inverse or leveraged funds is paternalistic and will only cause damage to small investors. The big money interests can hedge their portfolios but you would not let the little guy. Thus, the little investor will suffer the drawdowns &
I purchased a leveraged and inverse fund to play the rise in interest rates. I looked at the alternatives, decided how much risk I was comfortable taking, and purchased a 2X fund which has done very well in a time of rising interest rates. While I may not be rich, I am educated and quite capable of making decisions. Banning these investments smacks of authority limiting my ability to make
Short positions should be reported daily. Any attempts by institutional investors to drive stock prices up/down (smear campaigns, fake DD, Spam/Ads) should result in fines that actually impact the guilty parties, not just a tiny percent of the profit from the illicit activities. There needs to be actual penalties for breaking the rules, or the so-called "free market" will ever truly
These fines need to be raised! It's not fair that someone can net millions in undisclosed naked short positions and only be fined 10k for ruining a company! That's very suspicious for FINRA as you figured that was satisfactory. Every Short positions NEED to be disclosed and accounted for to stop the manipulation in the market! I'm also not so sure that the dark pool is a reputable
Proposal to Delete Rule Series 3400 and IM-2210-4(b) as Obsolete
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On September 12, 1994, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved an NASD rule change that amends the Prompt Receipt and Delivery of Securities Interpretation (Interpretation) issued by the NASD Board of Governors under Article III, Section 1 of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice. Specifically,
A free market system is exactly what we need. When I say free market I mean the ability of the retail investor to make their own decisions based on their own personal risk/reward assessment. Retail investors are legal adults who are rational and responsible for their own actions. Retail investors are quite capable of using their own judgement to manage their money. Every responsible adult is
