What is extremely discouraging is becoming aware of Dark pools, And in particular Citadel Connect. Where apparently they don’t have to report anything to Finra?? Is they are using dark pools and the connect forum to trade. And Lee the stock price down of say AMC for example. Is gives very little confidence in the system. especially as retail investor are becoming increasingly more aware of how
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Zero transparency. Inaccurately reporting from short. Naked shorts and complacent rule makers. Unfair dark pool usage. Abusive shorting and dark pool manipulation. Naked calls and married puts. HIDING FTDs in ITM options. Labelling shorts as long. Distraction plays and spoofing/layering by ALL hedgefunds, money makers. Algorthmic and high frequency trading. The short interest is self reported and
All reporting should be live and up to date always. Funds need to stop shorting companies into the ground. No trading of synthetic anything. It’s just being maliciously abused by market makers. No shorting in unregulated exchanges. I’m sure there’s many more, but it’s hard to keep track of all the felonious behavior. Retail traders are being robbed of their money all over the market by things not
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
Following is a list of NASD Notices to Members issued during the third quarter of 1984. Requests for copies of any notice should be accompanied by a self-addressed label and may be directed to: NASD Administrative Services, 1735 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006.
Notice Number
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84-36
July 18, 1984
Request for Comments on
I would like to See ALL Data daily regarding short positions. How is it that high frequency trading can be programmed to carry out millions upon millions of short transactions daily, but not able to simply submit data regarding those positions. They should be submitted daily along with darkpool positions. Transparency needs to become 100% as this will also help keep markets more honest because
1) Market maker cannot run their hedge funds : They have huge conflict of interest in their actions as market maker. 2) Mandatory short interest and long interest on weekly basis 3)US to adopt a settlement discipline regime (like EU's CSDR), which would reverse failed trades and suspend market participants who repeatedly fail to deliver shares sold 4) Acting on current rules diligently. 5)
The retail trader is currently at a huge disadvantage with seemingly insurmountable odds stacked against them. There needs to be full transparency in the markets regarding, short interest reporting, synthetic reporting, dark trading data, retail brokers selling to dark pool data, etc.. There should also be full enforcement of current rules in place and much higher fines for breaking the
I have spent thousands of hours reading, researching, and investigating all of the ins and outs of the markets for many years. Never have I ever seen as much blatant manipulation as we do now by certain short sellers. The media articles. The dark pool trading. Short sellers MUST BE INVESTIGATED. They're hiding the manipulation in broad daylight. And it's cost me thousands of settled
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