I would love to see a more timely and accurate reporting of short positions. No-monthly isn’t cutting it. The manipulation happening right now with retail investors money is blatant and should not be tolerated. Recent events have brought to light how unbalanced and unfair the system is for retail investors that pay budgets for these government reporting and enforcement agencies. The market makers
It is completely demoralizing as a retail investor to see what goes on with the stock market manipulation via shorting, off-exchange trading, and lack of reporting on short positions. The market is only fair if you have enough money to play. The fact that institutions can trade off exchange, use a million different tactics to short a stock (especially high frequency trading), and get fined
Hello Finra! , Thank you for listening to the people about these issues! we really need our voices heard since we might be a lot of individuals but we are not as organized as some big money entities are and we cant express ourselves in a very cohesive way but anyways. Please take a look into short selling taking place in $AMC & $GME and some others that i belive are being manipulated
Short-selling of stocks should be abolished. The practice is damaging because it artificially lowers stock prices. The practice of profiting from a company's failures is immoral. By selling shares that they do not possess, short-sellers temporarily reduce stock prices, because if those transactions had not occurred, fewer shares would be available for buyers to purchase. Short-sellers
Clearly… the market has become so rigged, unenforced and rebellious that unless you enact changes, companies will decide for themselves to create their own depository and turn every share into an NFT on the blockchain, because nothing else can protect them from predatory and malicious actions of bad actors that are emboldened by a system that gives them little oversight and allows them to
Hard working Americans, Retail Investors and those who were not born with a silver spoon only want two things: Transparency in the Stock Market and accountability. We need regulation bodies to hold those who perform malicious activity in the Stock Market accountable to their actions. Help restructure the system for a better and fair market! We are the people and we demand change! These past few
SEC Announces Approval of Amendment to FINRA's MRVP to Include Violations of Options Position and Exercise Limits and Contrary Exercise Advice Procedures
What the world saw in the final week of January 2021 was the cartelization of speculators who specialize in selling short stocks and options in the American capital markets. Whether or not this association's formation was premeditated or ad hoc is irrelevant to the events that unfolded and are continuing to unfold in relation to the impending implosion, real or perceived, of the system that
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Following the enactment of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (Act), FINRA amended the Code of Arbitration Procedure for Industry Disputes (Code) to align the Code with the Act.1 Among other things, the amendments permit persons with sexual assault claims and sexual harassment claims to elect not to enforce predispute arbitration agreements
The Books and Records topic of the 2024 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
