June 13, 2007
On July 9, 2007, the Regulation NMS Pilot Stock Phase is scheduled to begin. In this regard, as described in NASD Notice to Member (NTM) 07-23, NASD has adopted new transaction reporting modifiers that member firms are required to use when reporting to NASD facilities (each of NASD's Trade Reporting Facilities (TRFs) and the Alternative Display Facility (ADF)), whether a
I would expect firms, banks, funds, institutions to have to disclose short positions as well as naked short interest as it directly affects company stock value which affects investor's investments. Make it a rule and enforce it.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently approved amendments to Article III, Section 19(f) of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice governing sharing in customer accounts by members and by persons associated with
FINRA,
This new rule seems to badly discriminate against small personal investors. Why are you chasing me out of my current positions in leveraged ETFs? It is a bad plan to make the market for leveraged funds an oligopoly because it comes with the exclusion of disciplined personal investors who are capable of accepting risk.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In conjunction with its approval of various amendments to the NASD Code of Arbitration Procedure, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently approved an amendment to Article III, Section 21, of the NASD Rules
This regulation would threaten my financial stability as a consumer. The only way I protected myself against the rise in fuel price has been buying levered gasoline ETF's. Please do not move forward with the rule change. Millions will suffer because they will be stuck to investment options that only their employer can control.
New traders have to learn their job like anyone else on any other job, and learning about the risks and rewards of leveraged and inverse funds only takes a couple of quick real-life lessons. There is no need to impose a bunch of convoluted rules and regulations on these financial tools that make trading difficult for the rest of us.
Hi, I believe this is a gross over reach of regulation. Its border line insulting to believe that average people are incapable of assessing risk/reward for themselves. This would only hinder the average persons ability to participate in the financial markets. This is a rule that would benefit the already wealthy class and hinder the middle class ability to advance.
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(a) No member or person associated with a member shall cause to be executed an order to buy or sell a security or a related financial instrument when such member or person associated with a member causing such order to be executed has material, non-public market information concerning an imminent block transaction in that security, a related financial instrument or a security underlying the
