Purposefully creating synthetic shares of a security for the purpose of naked short selling to manipulate the market price for the security should be a felony. Not a crime that gets a fine, but a send-you-to-prison FELONY! There is absolutely no reason why this should be allowed to continue. It never should have been allowed in the first place. How can a market be free and fair when large traders
If I stole from a store I would end up in jail. But when the hedge funds does it. It’s creating a market. Double standard. They are stealing from the American people’s wallets. The same ones that pay for you to secure the exchanges. Which it is not being done. This makes me lose faith In the American stock system if all we are gonna do is lose our money to fake stocks and dark pools. I can’t
Here are some examples on how the system could be improved: 1. Reduce the reporting period to weekly (or preferably daily) from biweekly. 2. Require that exchanges report failures to deliver and naked shorts alongside covered shorts. 3. Reduce the holding period for reported days from 4 days to 2 or fewer. 4. Document and release the identities of funds that have open short positions and
I want a more transparent market for retail investors. Live accurate data that isn't 2-30 days delayed and partially reported. It is a distinct disadvantage that retail has when it only gets part of the picture. I also would like to see more regulations and stiffer penalties on naked short selling. The fines that are handed out for FTDs and naked short selling are a drop in the bucket to
I want a more transparent market for retail investors. Live accurate data that isn't 2-30 days delayed and partially reported. It is a distinct disadvantage that retail has when it only gets part of the picture. I also would like to see more regulations and stiffer penalties on naked short selling. The fines that are handed out for FTDs and naked short selling are a drop in the bucket to
In order to achieve a true “ free market” system, retail traders must be provided with total transparency. There are seemingly endless ways for institutions and hedge funds to have the advantage, whether it be access to data, rule loopholes, or seemingly smoke and mirror processes. SSR is a total fabrication, as there are countless ways to achieve shorting while the ruling is in place. It is
FINRA Requests Comment on Concept Proposal to Require a Disclosure Statement for Retail Investors at or Before Commencing a Business Relationship
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PART I INTERPRETIVE MATERIAL, DEFINITIONS,
Distribution Manager is used by the lead manager or book runner of a firm-commitment initial public offering (IPO) or follow-on offering to report underwriting commitments and retentions on behalf of the syndicate.
No member shall make an offer to buy from or sell to any person any security at a stated price unless such member is prepared to purchase or sell, as the case may be, at such price and under such conditions as are stated at the time of such offer to buy or sell.
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.01 Firmness of Quotations. Members and persons
