I appreciate the opportunity to submit comments on Short Interest Reporting. I am not against short selling, and as a retail investor I have made some very profitable trades over the years on the short side. However, I was always required to locate the shares, request to borrow and confirm they were received before I could enter the position. I am concerned that the current rules are not being
Naked shorts is illegal and fines don’t work. If a regular person goes to jail for illegal activities so should rich people. If you’re reading this you’re a regular person.
Naked shorting should be illegal. How can a company have more shares to purchase greater than what was issued by the company. This is fraud, deceptive and should be made illegal
Short selling and rehypothecation has been used to the detriment of retail investors and is threatening to destroy the entire market structure if left unchecked. Stricter reporting of positions, including naked shorts should be happening already. Brokerage firms, market makers, and other financial institutions were never meant to have as much control over the financial markets as they currently
The reporting requirements of short interest and short positions has long been due for reform. Running rampant in the market has been illegal market manipulation of stock prices utilizing failures of short reporting, specifically regarding short-exempt shares, naked short-selling, short positions being reported as long positions, hiding failure-to-delivers inside of far out-of-the-money puts/
Hello, I have no affiliations with professional investing, I just started getting into it last year at the height of the pandemic. With that said, there is an obvious disregard for being truthful about short selling due to recent events and am happy you re looking to retail investors to get their take. Either a daily or weekly report that is NOT self reported would be best. Self reporting seems
My comment on the rules is to actually enforce them. Honestly, take a look at obvious naked short selling and market manipulation. We the people have lost trust in a "free" market.
The current state the US market is full of fraud and manipulation. There is definitely a need for change. It’s a massive conflict of interest when a company is a hedge fund and a market maker!! All shares, synthetic and short, needs to reported daily and posted for retail investors. The market makers/hedge funds have all the information in front of them to make their informed decision. Retail
All shares should have a serial number. Block chain technology should be employed to track the movement of these shares. This would prevent any naked shorts both intentional, and unintentional.
Short interest reporting needs to be completely overhauled if we want to stay the leading market in the financial world. The current self reporting approach is laughable, and the fines for "misreporting", or what I would call lying and stealing, are a cost of doing business instead of a punishment. We have the technology to track short positions like Japan is doing with Blockchain which
