The FINRA is a non-governmental agency designed to insure Brokers are acting in good faith to all their clients. It is not a governmental agency their to regulate the clients! And if you were a government agency attempting such a non-ethical proposal I would feel the same as I do with this agency. You are not their to protect client interests regarding investing. You are their to enforce the
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REQUEST FOR COMMENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The NASD requests membership comment on proposed
SR-FINRA-2009-025 - Proposed Rule Change to Amend Incorporated NYSE Rules 2, 2A and 325 to Conform to Amendments Made by NYSE
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to eliminate the Order Audit Trail System (“OATS”) rules in the FINRA Rule 7400 Series and FINRA Rule 4554 (Alternative Trading Systems — Recording and Reporting Requirements of Order and Execution Information for NMS Stocks) once members are
Sec. 8.1 FINRA shall be the sole stockholder of the capital stock of FINRA Dispute Resolution.
Deleted by SR-FINRA-2015-034 eff. Dec. 20, 2015.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2010-007 eff. Aug. 2, 2010.
Adopted by SR-NASD-99-21 eff. July 9, 2000.
Selected Notice: 10-32.
Current rules/regulations that are in place to monitor/report short selling and positions associated with short selling are entirely inadequate. Rules in place that allow for many loop-holes including short exempt, married calls/puts and dark pool activity + high frequency trading leaves currently regulations looking like swiss-cheese. Abuse from market makers and hedgefunds that are paid in gold
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Short Interest Reporting
Intermarket Surveillance Group
Executive Summary
This Notice to Members advises member firms that, effective September 2007, they are required to increase the frequency of short interest reporting from monthly to twice a month.1 Attachment A outlines the revised Short
Effective with the October 3, 2011 OATS Release, the OATS Rules will require member firms to report to FINRA order information for all NMS stocks and OTC equity securities. Initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary offerings, Direct Participation Programs (DPPs), "restricted securities", as defined by SEC Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act of 1933, and any securities designated in the PORTAL Market are not reportable to OATS.
I think retail is extremely desirous of seeing more frequent reporting and as much of that made publicly available as possible. At least of a weekly or bi-weekly basis. I believe the currently attempted short squeeze is bring to light that lack of transparency is being used to commit fraud and establish predatory roles against companies. The conduct of these financial professionals qualifies as
