Dear Sirs and Madams: As a former managing director of a broker dealer I can tell you with certainty that regulations for leveraged and inverse ETFs are long past due. Although I have over 45 years of investment experience I was also ill informed about their characteristics and basically lost all of the money in my IRA which I luckily could afford. Now that I understand them I am profiting
I would like to be free to invest in what I deem appropriate for me, my investment and retirement goals, and my risk tolerance. I do not need someone who knows nothing about me, my personal goals or my personal risk tolerance to attempt to determine what is or is not appropriate. Nor do I need someone else to tell me what they think I may or may not understand. In short, I do not need someone
TO: All NASD Members and Interested Persons
ATTN: Registration, Training and Compliance Personnel
The subject matter of various NASD qualification examinations has been affected by the passage of the Tax Reform Act of 1984 (the "Act") as well as by recently adopted amendments to certain SEC and NASD rules. The test items affected by these changes have been deleted from the current test
It is in the interest of anyone investing in the market, as well as for those with retirement accounts for there to be an improvement in the reporting of short interest, and of its sources. At this time it is common for stock prices to be determined not by the foundational performance of the company that it represents, but rather by whether hedge funds or other investment vehicles have decided to
NASD® has taken disciplinary actions against the following firms and individuals for violations of NASD rules; federal securities laws, rules and regulations; and the rules of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB).
Rules 203(b) (Short sales) and 204 (Close-out requirement) of Regulation SHO provide exceptions for bona fide market making activity. The SEC has provided guidance on what constitutes “bona fide market making activities” as well as examples of what does not. Member firms must also confirm and be able to demonstrate that any transaction for which they rely on a Regulation SHO bona fide market making exception qualifies for the exception, consistent with Regulation SHO and guidance.
We as investors get screwed by big hedges who manipulate the market with shorting with there software made to artificially give a false price Sabby and Citadel are the to biggest that continues break laws and nothing happens to them we are tired of this they find away to come up with shares that should not be there. I see many lawsuits being the only way of stopping this illegal activity this is
Why on God's green Earth would short interest be something self reported? This has been the free money printing scheme since the dawn of ages. What happens when the people with IOU's come to collect their gold and there's more IOU's than gold? We're talking government collapse! The average American investor has been propping up Wall St. since the beginning, we watched our
Retail is the backbone of the economy. We're always given the worst odds and being beaten down. With that they're beating down the US and world economy. It is the responsibility of those in power to make a change to level the playing field. If you raise up retail, we'll raise up the economy. Short sellers are killing jobs, robbing peoples futures and killing the economy so they can
Get rid of all the T-delay non-sense. We are in a digital era, any delays are beneficial to only the larger institutions. They have to file to make it known when they take a bullish position. Why not when they take a short one? Our system is corrupt, please do what you can to fix this clear advantage for them. I should know where institutions stand for or against any stock I own in real time.
