As a “retail investor”, which is a term I hate, the actions of Wall Street “professionals” over the past 6 months or longer has been eye opening to say the least. As a 43 year old man with a Bachelors degree in finance, who has taken classes on investing, stocks, mutual funds, options, bonds, and various other securities I always knew that I wanted a professional to manage my portfolio and 401k
Financial regulation primary purpose is to both create a fair marketplace and create a public perception of a fair marketplace. To do this, financial regulation should work to eliminate uncertainty in the exchange process and work to eliminate volatility not due the fundamentals of the company who stock is being traded. While there are valid reasons for companies and individuals to short stocks,
In regards to notice 21-19, I feel any and all available information regarding short interest and shares affected be open and publicly available information, ideally on a daily basis. We have the means to update this information in a real time way and thus should do so for all shareholders. The stock market has a lot of untrusting investors currently due to the way hedge funds have handled their
FINRA Announces Nominees for Upcoming Vacancies on the National Adjudicatory Council Petitions for Candidacy Due: September 16, 2013
Upcoming District Committee and District Nominating Committee Elections
A vibrant and efficient capital-raising process fosters business expansion, job creation, innovation and economic growth. FINRA members play a critical role in facilitating capital formation for businesses of all sizes. FINRA supports the capital-raising process through appropriately tailored rules for its members that are designed for the benefit of all market participants.
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Executive Summary
On May 18, 1993, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a no-action letter that permits broker/dealers to use optical storage technology(OST) to comply with the records retention requirements of SEC Rules 17a-3 and 17a-4. The letter, which was issued by the SEC
July 9, 2004
When an NASD member firm receives or originates an order and electronically routes that order to another member firm, the routing firm must provide a Routed Order ID to the receiving firm. (This requirement does not apply when routing to an ECN or to a non-member.) Both the routing firm and the receiving firm must record and report this Routed Order ID to OATS so that NASD is able
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Executive Summary
In July, the NASD Board of Governors solicited member comment on eliminating a safe harbor for members trading ahead of customer limit orders. After reviewing comments received from members and others, the Board has taken action to eliminate the disclosure safe harbor and to
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As of May 24, 1993, the following 58 issues joined the Nasdaq National Market,® bringing the total number of issues to 3,108:
Symbol
Company
Entry Date
SOES Execution Level
SFSW
State Financial Services Corporation
4/26/93
500
ACTNW
Action Performance Companies, Inc. (4/27/98 Wts)
4/27/93
500
ACTN
Action
