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,
We need more transparency in the market. We, as retail investors are kept in the dark when it comes to the "free market" while hedge funds blatantly manipulate positions using illegal trading activity. The SEC and all the regulators need to enforce the new laws that have been put into place and quit letting manipulation happen why they take handouts from these financial crooks. So in
I think that transparency of market activity on a daily basis will keep the market safe.
I believe that complete short positions and short interests should be publicly reported on a hourly to daily basis for public knowledge. Without it, retail investors are at an unfair disadvantage.
Short interest reporting should be instantaneous. Not sure why the reporting on SI and other short positions data is so delayed and unreliable but for the market to be fair, both sides of positions need to see all data equally for manipulation to be in check. If changes to short data being made available publicly and in reasonable times then I fear the market will never be fair and retail
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!
Shorting as a market practice is a ridiculous concept to begin with because in no other area of a capitalist market can You borrow something that is already owned and then sell it, only to buy it back at a lower price to intentionally profit off of the original lender. That aside, self reporting clearly isn't working, and the ability for borrowed stock to be mis-marked, intentionally or
There are no rules. Why even have all of this? Naked shorting continues, dark pool trading is out of control. EVERYTHING is set up for the institutions and the super rich to get richer, and the retail investor to be left holding a bag. The institutions are allowed to continue to gamble recklessly and get bailed out when it doesn’t go their way. There needs to be real change in the system to be
I feel that the reporting needs to be more frequently and made available to the public on short positions, naked shorts and shirt interest. Retail investors are at a disadvantage for not seeing the changes in markets and the flow of orders and the short interest that are restricted or limited to a monthly reporting scheme. It allows market makers and big players to manipulate the market and make
The markets will never be fair unless ALL data is available openly and within a reasonable time frame for viewing by retail and commercial alike. This includes all the ADF data.
