FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective
Every share should be tracked with a unique identifier. Every share with a unique identifier should only be allowed to lent out once. Every order should be delivered T+2 or fails mean 10x cost penalty. Every short position should be updated with FINRA daily. All retail but and sell orders should be done in a "lit" market - not retail order should be allowed to be packaged up with other
Short positions should be reported daily along with short interest.
The stock market needs Total Transparency. The Hedge Funds and Market Makers are manipulating the market via the dark pool, by buying in the pools and selling on the open market, to artificially suppress the price of stocks that have been shorted. The act of Naked Short selling is rampant and frequently goes unenforced. Allgorhythmic Trading back and forth to artificially depress prices should be
Yes more transparency. The more information the better.
There is no reason all data from the stock market including short data isn’t transmitted in real time. This isn’t the 1920’s and also “family office” is a sham. It was created in the early 20th century and the rules governing them have never been updated. They should report like everyone else or be used as shells for market makers to hide short positions. Options should never be allowed to
How about you create a fair and equitable market for all participants. If you have to continue with such convoluted rules, you are still a joke. You and the SEC are a complete waste of regulations, you know what you have to do, but you won't, you are the problem here
Naked shorting and dark pools have allowed manipulation of the stock price. They are able to bring the true stock price dow in order to save themselves which is unfair to the American people!! We work just as hard study the market hard if not harder and we do not have access to manipulate anything it's win or lose for the people. This is so unfair I personally have lost thousands of dollars
The rules SEC, DTCC,NSCC and all regulators institutions had been promoting should be activated and complied. The naked short sales is illegal so that is a criminal act. As criminal act must be punished with severe penalties not just with a few dollars. If a common person that works in an financial institution commit a crime by changing few numbers to hide they were doing something wrong that
If the US market looks to be seen as a free market we need to have transparency. Dark pool trading has gone on unregulated to the point of becoming a place where institutional investors can go to hide their elicit trades; this needs to end. All authorized shares should be able to be accounted for at any given time during market hours. Fines and penalties for FTDs and naked shorting of stocks
