By Kara Williams and Gargi Sharma
Here is a look back at a few key topics related to anti-money laundering (AML) obligations that rose to the level of being included in FINRA’s 2023 Examination and Risk Monitoring Report. These threats continue to be prevalent today and remain as areas of focus for FINRA’s Complex Investigations and Intelligence (CII) section.
One was manipulative trading in
The blatant manipulation against AMC and GME makes me lose complete faith in the US stock market. I am working on moving my money out of the US stock system. It's clear that our government is bought and paid for. This system with tutes lying about short positions, dark pools, secondary books by brokers, unchecked FTD's and high-frequency trading makes an unfair playing field to where
All short sale information should be available to all traders! ALL of it! Also, Dark Pools should be outlawed. Or at least, if blocks are bought on a dark pool, they should reflect the price on the retail charts. No more secrete crooked trading! OR, they should not be allowed to buy in a dark pool just to resell on the open market just to push a price down on a stock. Everything needs to start to
We must end dark pool trading. HFT's are using these dark pools to hide real numbers from the exchange as well as buying shares within dark pool to sell off en masse on the lit exchange (NYSE). While dark pools are legal and we understand it's real purpose of keeping large investor information off the market until their buy in has settled, it has turned into a way to disguise corruption
Naked Shorting and Dark Pool access across the market have gutted the “fair trading market”. Judicial Action and Margin Calls are requested to commence immediately to concurrently and preemptively filter the malicious acts of hedge funds in the United States and it’s chains/conglomerates internationally. Establishing recently passed DTCC and SEC rules must be applied to all active applications
When purchasing securities, you may pay for them in full or may borrow part of the purchase price from your securities firm. If you choose to borrow funds from a firm, you must open (or have) a margin account with the firm. Some brokerage firms use margin accounts as their default type of account.The portion of the purchase amount that you must deposit is called margin and is
All efforts need to be made to protect unexpecting investors from zero sum Ponzi/Pyramid/Greater Fool schemes like Crypto-"currencies"! => Why bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme: https://www.ft.com/content/83a14261-598d-4601-87fc-5dde528b33d0
All efforts need to be made to separate legitimate longterm investing from short term, nanosecond gambling. The
I should be able to choose the public
investments that are right for me and my family.
Public investments should be available to all of the public,
not just the privileged. As a former Certified Financial Planner for nearly 30 years I know about market and investment risks and understand the complexity of trading leveraged investments.
I shouldn't have to go through any
I oppose FINRA restricting my right to invest in publicly traded ETFs..I should be able to choose the public
investments that are right for me and my family. I shouldn't have to go through any special process
like passing a test before you can invest in public securities,
like leveraged and inverse funds. I am very capable of understanding leveraged and inverse funds
and
To whom it may concern,
I do not believe in setting "restrictions" for extra risky assets (like triple-leveraged ETFs) in lieu of simple education on those assets. We're all adults, we should be allowed to use our money the way we want to PROVIDED we are fully aware of the circumstances. If the investor is unaware of the differences between a x3 ETF and a normal index
