Shorting as a market practice is a crazy concept. No other capitalist market allows borrowing something that one person owns, sell it, buy it back at a lower price to profit off their initial lender. Self reporting clearly isn’t working and the ability to borrow stock is way mis-marked. Everything should be labeled and marked in real time so the corruption can be stopped and we play a fair game
AMC has already stated that they have enough liquidity to stay in business until the end of fiscal year 2022 and yet Market Makers, Prime Brokers, Hedge Funds, continue to short the stock on purpose to bankrupt the company and completely disregard the failure to delivers and blatant manipulation with minimal transparency to retail investors and they are getting away with it everyday. Please help
1. All shorts shall be reported to FINRA by end of each settlement day. 2. All unused loaned shares shall be reported to FINRA by end of the settlement day. 3. FINRA shall make public the outstanding unused loaned share(s) by end of the settlement day of a trading week. 4. All threshold securities sho regulation shall be reported daily with a full accounting of fail to deliver end by end of
I’m sure you will get many comments but it would be nice to see more details on how companies are shorted in a given day as well as something which details what is considered market manipulation and how to report it because many “investors” feel they are getting a raw deal with hedge funds. I believe rules should be in place that a hedge fund cannot pay brokers for trade information especially
FINRA -should not limit my choose to invest in leveraged and inverse funds. With inverse funds I can still manage to potentially make gains in an IRA account as I cant short in this type of account. If you limit this I can only go down. I have a collage degree and understand the risk associated with any type of trading or investment. I have gone to school for trading and am doing what I love to
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All efforts need to be made to separate legitimate longterm investing from short term, nanosecond gambling. The
People should have the ability to protect themselves in cases of market downturns. People understand insurance against unforeseen events. A market downturn just when you need your money is a serious event. People need to be able to buy protection against that. Also, there is plenty of information made available to investors about these funds. The average investor should understand it well enough
I oppose any restrictions on my trading / investing activity. Leveraged and inverse funds are just a fraction of my overall portfolio but play an important role. With the proper rebalancing they can be used as a long term investment. It's easily to learn about leveraged ETF's online or with books. Let the free market decide if leveraged funds are worthy of existing without regulations.
The public should have the unfettered right to invest at will in inverse funds and leveraged funds and other market traded vehicles. There should be no special training or net worth gates applied.
The insiders, inside firms and big brokerages already have huge advantages in speed, concealment of trading in dark pools, and the ability to short investments easily.
The general public should be able
