I recently joined the stock market. But I see there’s a lot of corruption with short sellers. I hope this can be straightened out so we have a fair market to do trading. Several of my friends are thinking about quitting trading all together if it doesn’t begin to be fair
FINRA and the SEC aren't doing enough to level the playing field for retail investors and we deserver the right for better transparency in the market. It's clear that illegal shorts are not covering their positions yet the slap on the wrist fines are merely considered the price to do business. This has to change!
As a common retail stockholder, I would very much like to see much more current and much more detailed reporting of short sale activity. I would also like to see investigation as to possible malicious or surreptitious activities by large companies with resources not available to retail investors.
We want more frequent public reporting of short positions and more detail in public reports. The entire market is rigged. Authorities are not doing their job. The public think they are on the side of the hedge funds who have created all these problems and taken advantage of this broken system for decades.
I have owned shares of ProShares inverse funds for several years while mistakingly expecting a major drop in the stock markets. I will be very upset if my shares are eliminated by FINRA and I must take a large loss instead of recovering some of my investment when the markets finally correct. Shorting the markets is a legitimate thing to do.
Investors have the right to invest their money how and where THEY see fit. It is NOT the government's right to determine whether riskier investments should be available, Freedom of investing and the ability to diversify through hedging and shorting should be the right of every individual, not just wealthier individuals who have many avenues in which to diversify and grow their wealth.
These regulations on leveraged products have much less risk then directly shorting an issue or using leverage or futures. To prohibit them indicates that only the wealthiest have access to such vehicles. How about banning stock buybacks instead? They're used to keep the market crashing as dishonest insiders liquidate their fake companies and get rich.
As long as it’s possible to sell a share short and mark it long, any additional reporting visibility and/or frequency will be diluted by fraudulent data. Delivery of shares at settlement should be a requirement. Failing to deliver a security sold and NEVER EVER having to deliver it is criminal and theft. Transparency is everything.
Pushing unregulated crypto to the masses is nothing short of racketeering. I am a risk professional. Your industry has ZERO creditability in this arena. These products are the only thing protecting retail investors from the FED fueled, financially engineered, derivatives death star. FINRA's attempt at regulation is an indictment on the financial systems lack risk management.
Regularly Use inverse funds as a head to my portfolio. Usually 80% long and 20% short. (Inverse). Provides an excellent hedge to my portfolio. Limiting my Inverse allocation will put my portfolio at higher risk - all the sector in the market go higher every year? Change sector allocation once a year.
