Short positions should have to be reported immediately upon hitting the threshold list. Which as you know means FTD's are running rampant, they should be forced to cover in entirety to discourage institutions from dragging out their mistakes if they've had enough days consistently to reach the list. This would have saved them billions to date. Also Prime brokers should be required to
All short selling including naked short sell needs to be reported daily and monitoring must be in place to prevent abuses from market manipulators. Also dark pools of stocks must also be reported and regulated and the failure to deliver crisis must be resolved and those shares must be bought. Supply and demand is a basic principle of are democracy and should be reflected in pricing from stocks to
Many times I’ve visited your site and don’t believe the short interest numbers to be correct . We need transparency in the markets so the media cannot twist words however they seem appropriate for their agenda . I see the world moving to fascism it’s started to look the the beginning of world war 2 .
Short positions should be force closed on failure to deliver. The ability to cover a failed delivery with options or collateral does not excuse that an investor is actually stolen from with a failure to deliver. Also of concern, the "can kicking" through synthetic share production by means of options contracts. No one should be allowed to have 400 million put contracts on the books. Is
That [REDACTED] needs to be automated and updated hourly, if not by the minute.
As an investor, I feel hedge funds are exploiting some rules and feel somewhat unaffected by them It would be for the most interest, that the short sales were reported hourly, and in case of borrowing shares, that those shares are accounted and tracked, and blocked for trading for a minimum of 15 trading days before being released again
The revelations of opacity around short selling, trade settlement, and unlit off-exchange trading is deeply troubling and an abomination to the ideals of free and transparent capital markets. The delay and self reporting of short interest, coupled with lack of meaningful deterrents like imprisonment or material fines (fining Robinhood $70 million for their role in the January Gamestop shenanigans
