We want better short sell reporting, end of day settlements, better short sell marking of shares, much stronger penalties or jail time for short sell violations, and market manipulation. Stop allowing retail investors to get ripped off and bullied. Things like dark pools, naked shorting, and general lack of transparency makes retail investors lose confidence in the market as a whole.
I would like to see full transparency in regard to short selling, including naked short and dark pools. Full accountability for failure to deliver (FTD)
FINRA Rule 2360(b)(23)(C) requires member firms conducting transactions in exchange-listed options to establish fixed procedures for allocating options exercise assignment notices to short options positions in their customer accounts. Firms may elect to allocate exercise assignment notices on: (1) a “first in-first out” basis (FIFO); (2) a random selection basis; or (3) another equally random
Naked shorting is illegal. Conditions need to be met by regulatory agencies to ensure it and any equivalent mechanisms to it don't happen. Broker-dealers can lend internally to close a short position and create a loan instead. FINRA is apparently considering regulating this. FINRA MUST be held accountable to treat a defined intra-member SI-defeat mechanism the same way it would treat its
Since the stack market is meant to operate on the principals of supply a demand. I believe that synthetic share creation through naked short selling or naked options needs technical controls enacted to prevent. Policy controls appear to be largely ineffective give the number of cases for violations listed on SEC.GOV. Given we can buy and sell shares and options why isn’t there simply an exchange
As I see it, the current US market is full of nothing but fraud and blatant manipulation, with regulatory agencies doing nothing to police it to the point of them being complicit in these actions as well. They are complicit through their complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation in several ways. Naked short selling by large hedge funds like Citadel, point72 and Melvin
I would like to see accurate and up to date info on shorts, Possible naked shorts and failures to deliver. And also ways of enforcing fair market practices.
Short interest should be disclosed daily in order to level the playing field with retail traders. Naked shorting and dark pool trading needs to be completely done away with
Short positions should be reported daily, with proof they are not naked shorts. How long can you continue to let them dump more synthetic shares in the market.
As an international investor, I would like to see the following changes: 1. All short reporting (naked or otherwise) should be reported on a daily basis. 2. If a particular entity shorts a stock more than 5% it should be reported just like long positions. 2. Shorting a stock above 30-40% should not be allowed due to share dilution it causes.