Please make sure that the fines are enough to deter these predatory short sellers. If the fine is only minimal compared to the gain then people will continue to abuse the rule. Also a locate should always be required before a share is borrowed. It seems shares are being loaned out and not located.
FINRA Extends Implementation of Amendments Requiring Related Market Center Indicator in Non-Tape Reports Submitted to FINRA
ENFORCEMENT!!! You can make all the rules in the world but until they are enforced they do no good. And when you do enforce the punishment needs to fit, those guys laugh at the piddly fines they're given! Close the loopholes, SSR is useless and darkpools need to go!
December 1999
SEC—Year 2000 Recordkeeping Rule
Effective August 31, 1999, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted SEC Rule 17a-9T (the Rule) relative to Year 2000. The Rule, which was originally proposed in March 1999, is intended to assist broker/dealers, the SEC, self-regulatory organizations (SROs), and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) in identifying all
This rule is unacceptable. There is no place to limit "risky" investments from the people. If someone decides to invest in something they do not fully understand, they are accepting the risk that they may loose significant amounts of money. There is no reason to protect people from these. Everyone should be provided with free choice to invest where they wish. Worst case scenario
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
The following are NASD Notices to Members issued during the third quarter of 1987. Requests for copies of any notice should be accompanied by a self-addressed mailing label and directed to: NASD Administrative Services, 1735 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006-1506.
Notice Number
Date
Topic
87-42
July 1, 1987
NASDAQ National Market
Dear FINRA,
Your proposed rules for trading leveraged products especially net worth restriction will make rich become richer and poor become poorer. Rich will always have resources to meet regulations while poor will struggle to find time and resources to satisfy the regulations.
You should trust people to make decisions that fit their investment objectives regardless of their net worth.
Remarks by Executive Vice President Thomas M. Selman at the IRI Government, Legal and Regulatory Conference
Comments:The wide use of leveraged ETF offer me the complexity of investment features not found anywhere else. i have the broad knowledge and financial understanding of how these investments work and have utilized them for decades to benefit both me and the clients i serve in my investment management practice. I ask that new rules not be implimented, doing so will not dissuade an investor from
I oppose establishment of restrictions upon individuals to make investments as described in the proposed rule, #S7-24-15. While I support providing individuals with opinions and recommendations, restrictions intrude on decisions best made by individuals who weigh risk vs reward of investments made with their money.
Specific to crypto, individuals need no more restrictions than alternate
