Here are a few suggestions to help regulate and enforce short sales that have gotten out of control in my opinion. 1. Reduce the reporting period to weekly (or preferably daily) from biweekly. 2. Require that exchanges report failures to deliver and naked shorts alongside covered shorts. 3. Reduce the holding period for reported days from 4 days to 2 or fewer. 4. Document and release the
All short positions, FTD's, short interest, dark pool prices and Naked short positions -- must be available, public information -- immediately for all -- at all times... all information about everything must be available immediately for everyone. I mean, come on, this is obvious for a fair playing field. Hedge funds are getting away with crime after crime. the playing field must be equalized
Daily short reporting. Also Eliiminate this T+2 reporting. It allows naked short in the days between. Fines are equivalent to 100% of profits taken, if they cannot prove the profits then 100% of the revenue of the trade. Pantry fines are essentially green lights for million of dollars of profit for there illegal activities
Enforce the rules. Stop cutting deals on fines because CEO's used to work there. Make the fines hurt, instead of just being a cost of business. Stop naked shorting, regulate the dark pool, margin calls on short sellers with of lots of failures to deliver like Citadel.
While these increased reporting requirements around the currently broadly abused short selling practices in the stock market (including naked shorting, mis-reporting longs as shorts, re-hypothecated shares, married puts/calls, and fails to deliver) are a step in the right direction, the proposed changes do not go far enough to provide transparency and fairness to the public. Please consider
Please check out citadel and all the shorts seller. Believe they're doing naked shorts and manipulation the market right now. SEC really need to step in and do their job, all we want is a fair market. This is freedom country, Things should be equally. Thank you!.
All short sales - synthetic, actual, borrowed, naked shorts which we need to acknowledge exist, etc. ALL should all be more fully disclosed to level the playing field for the non-institutional buyer. Hedge funds manipulate the market terribly with the existing rules and it needs to change.
The ways in which hedgefunds, family offices, and institutions are able to hide their naked short positions, whereby effecting an inaccurate short interest %, means that this isn't a level playing field. Force them to disclose ALL positions so that I, a retail investor, may choose to invest my money in a responsible way.
Full transparency is required moving forward. If long positions are submitted the shorts should be treated the same and disclosed. T+0 would be great. Naked shorts and synthetic shares shouldn’t be required in this market. Married Puts and calls shouldn’t be able to used full stop to synthetically cover any positions.
Serialize ALL shares of a stock with block chain. No more synthetic shares and doubles/triple lending etc. They can no longer complain that its tip expensive - it's a fraction of what they're paying in short interest to cover their asses and kick the can down the road. They've created monster - Tame it for the future with blockchain.... - Also - Punish the ones who are naked
