Inverse funds are an important investment vehicle that should be made and kept available to the average investor. They offer investors the ability to hedge other investments and protect themselves from adverse market moves. To remove this tool from investors would be short sighted and negatively impact the average investor by not allowing this tool for them but to continue to allow it for high
Please stop meddling in the small investors arena. You have so ineptly and corruptly tilted the scales for the large investors that you should let market participants decide. Your efforts in the name of safeguarding investors is nothing more than an attempt to shelter large investors and institutions. These funds our one of the few ways we can invest in short positions in a readily available
The only way to have a trust worthy financial market is through transparency and having a better understanding of what short positions exist and the data involved with them only seems the logical answer. Currently it’s a portion of the market that seems shrouded in mystery. That doesn’t make me want to invest; if anything it has made me shy away.
I would like to see Finra do a daily count of all short positions in the markets by having all Industry Members report to Finra directly, specifically Dark Pool data. As retail traders as a collective have now become ever increasingly aware of the Synthetic shares which are traded in the dark pools to manipulate the price of a stock.
Every share should be tracked with unique identifier. Every share should be located and lent only once. Every order should be delivered T+2 or fails mean 10x cost penalty. Every short position should be updated publicly with FINRA daily. Shares should not be allowed to be purchased on a dark pool and then sold on the open exchange.
I think none of the rule are being put in place are followed by hedge funds,payment for Oder flow should be ban, short selling should be cut to a minimum,the threshold list they’re not following,these people makes the market look bad we as retail investors see all the manipulation and are tried of it now what are the regulators are going to do about it.
There needs to be regulations and laws put in place to separate market makers from those able to make trades in the market. How is it a free market when retail investors clearly have a disadvantage compared to hedgefunds. People are losing hope in the market, especially because of what you’re allowing to happen with heavily shorted stocks such as AMC and GME.
Enforcement and transparency. There is no enforcement on the rules that are already in place. SSR is not enforced at all. T+0 settlement, ban payment for order flow, stop routing all our buys through dark pools (the dark pools are not being used as inteded), add real punishments for repeat offenders (jail time), force shorts to cover their synthetic shares.
NASD would like to remind members of their obligation to file the appropriate FOCUS reports, Schedule I filings, Annual Audits, Customer Complaints and Short Interest reports by their due dates.
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The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Fed.) is requesting comments on proposed changes to Regulation T (Reg. T), which covers extensions of credit by and to broker/dealers.
