These regulations would be taking a valuable tool away from investors. They would impinge on our ability to hedge our accounts against loss. We would need to become short sellers, which is much more risky and unavailable in retirement accounts. Your proposed rules would increase market risk.
I completely oppose restrictions that could impact my ability to trade in both leveraged and inverse ETF's. The US equity markets have recently undergone several bouts of volatility so far in the first 4 months of 2022 with the S&P 500 being down about 14% currently. In this current environment inverse ETF's have been most instrumental to me in obtaining short
Hello,
I am writing this comment about the "Regulatory Notice 22-08". In short, this notice pertain to what FINRA considers as a "complex product".
As goes with almost everything the "complexity" is in the eyes of the beholders. What's complex for one might be simple for another. Therefore, I believe, imposing someone's
It is my opinion, as a new investor, that clarity of information be the most important aspect of regulation. Beyond tagging each individually purchased share, there is little to no way to keep track of shares that have been shorted, and the delivery process is convoluted. Without going into specific details, and instead focusing on the motive aspects of reporting and regulation, the want and
When Regulation NMS was adopted, the SEC and market observers did not recognize ex-clearing as a significant loophole. In the original crafting of Regulation SHO (implemented in 2005), the industry told the SEC that ex-cleared trades were "rare". As such ex-cleared trades were exempt from much of the short selling regulations. Dark pool trades (ATS and OTC) in 2021 now make up a
Outlaw all dark pools, synthetic shorts, and fail to delivers, or at the bare minimum require them all to be reported in realtime publicly. These are the bare minimum clear steps needed, or further info exposing the depth of corruption will be leaked, inevitably leading to global financial collapse.
Greater transparency regarding short positions is essential for the market to function as intended. Any regulation that increases this transparency has my wholehearted support. Market manipulation must be actively fought against as loopholes continue to be found by those who would sacrifice their integrity for profit.
Dark pools. Why are they here, what are they supposed to be used for. I feel they have been exploited and abused over and over for the benefit of the hedge funds and market makers. They have been used to hide short positions and kick the can down the road in regards to amc and gme.
Something needs to be done about leveling the playing field between institutions and retail investors. With the technology available to us today it shouldn't require much effort for institutions to report their short positions on a daily basis, while also providing more detail in the public reports.
Please make sure that the fines are enough to deter these predatory short sellers. If the fine is only minimal compared to the gain then people will continue to abuse the rule. Also a locate should always be required before a share is borrowed. It seems shares are being loaned out and not located.
