FINRA reporting should fully cover all positions held in publicly traded companies. The reporting period should follow the standard settlement period. All reporting should be made available to the public within 2 hours of market close on a daily basis. All positions, including short positions should be required to be included without exception. Failure to accurately disclose a short position in
FINRA seeks comment on proposed amendments to FINRA Rules 5110 (Corporate Financing Rule—Underwriting Terms and Arrangements), 5121 (Public Offerings of Securities With Conflicts of Interest) and 5123 (Private Placements of Securities) to make substantive, organizational and terminology changes to the rules.
FINRA Revises the Treatment of Non-Margin Eligible Equity Securities and Delays the Effective Date
This is yet another attempt by the Government to regulate and control their citizens. As individual opportunities we will be more dependent on the Government for solutions. Regulation of investing and trading is just another example of Government overreach.
I'm an experienced investor with a Master in Finance with a concentration in portfolio management.
Why should I not be able to trade in these products when I'm aware of the risks, understand and am willing to accept them?
Leave that for investors to decide. I have done 500+ option trades and paying Short term Gains Tax. I keep educating myself by attending webinars and on line courses by OCC etc.
If options, futures, and crypto are all fair game, so should these investment devices. I agree with having to sign a waiver and apply to trade them, but banning these funds is not in the best interests of Americans.
There should not be restrictions for trading inverse or
leverage funds. I usually invest in inverse funds that are not leveraged and these funds are put into the same catagory as leveraged funds. They are not the same. I am against any restrictions.
You are handicapping families who have finra related compliance rules from freely trading the market. We are already limited by minimal holding periods and denial of derivative products.
I believe that you should leave well enough alone. If people want to trade ETF's or any leveraged fund let them. it's their hard earned money to do with as they please.
