Holly Lokken is Senior Vice President in Market Regulation and Transparency Services. Ms. Lokken leads the Trading and Market Data Analytics business unit, which is a centralized market analytics center of excellence providing rapid, innovative, and impactful data and market analytics to each of FINRA’s Market Regulation core functions as well as the broader FINRA organization. Ms.
Michael Garawski is Senior Vice President and Director, Appellate Group, in FINRA’s Office of General Counsel (OGC). Mr. Garawski manages the program that advises FINRA’s National Adjudicatory Council and that represents FINRA in appeals that challenge FINRA’s regulatory actions before the SEC. Previously, Mr. Garawski served as Associate General Counsel, Regulatory Practice &
First off, the amount of corruption in today's market is unbelievable. To see FINRA, an organization that is supposed to protect the integrity of the market; come out with baseless claims to try and keep the public from arguably the safest investment opportunities the market has to offer, definitely seems as if there's an agenda that's not in the best interest of the
FINRA announced today the results of its election of two Governors to its Board of Governors. The announcement came after the Annual Meeting of FINRA firms, where Scott A. Curtis, president of Raymond James’s Private Client Group, was elected as a Large-Firm Governor, and Wendy Lanton, Chief Compliance Officer and Founding Principal of Herald & Lantern Investments, Inc., was re-elected as a Small-Firm Governor.
Finra Question 1: What implementation period would be appropriate to provide members with sufficient time to make the systems changes necessary to comply with this requirement? My Answer: Change needs to happen as soon as possible Finra Question 2: FINRA is considering whether daily or weekly short interest position reporting would be preferable. What are commenters’ views on the preferred
Investors should be able to determine for themselves whether or not particular investments are appropriate for my or my family's investment goals. It suffices for investors to know that ANY security poses inherent risks, or more often, volatility.
The ability to invest freely is a necessary component of Americans' financial security: Social Security and pensions often are
I am not in favor of any regulation that would take away my ability to use investment devices that are available to others or to throttle or adjust my access.
I use a leveraged ETF (TQQQ) to risk a smaller amount of money and possibly achieve greater returns as part of my comprehensive investment strategy. I am quite pleased with the results and will continue to use it as a portion of my overall
I am a retail investor and have been for close to 12 years now. In my opinion, short sellers should be transparent in their dealings and if I had the ability, I would close dark pool opportunities for institutions since it seems to be a way to manipulate the market data overall. Regulations should be as up to date with data tracking and not be in a delay such as with the Ortix report coming out
I strongly oppose restricting access to any public investments to those who already have significant financial and/or social capital. This is the sort of self-dealing that gives the financial industry the reputation of rigging the game in its own favor at the expense of retail investors. I personally use 3X leveraged funds to potentially enhance returns on a small portion of my overall portfolio
FINRA,
A little bit of background:
I am self taught in the domain of investment finance. The extent of formal financial education were a handful of economics classes and an accounting class in college. Year to Day, I am beating the S&P500 in my self-directed brokerage account because I taught myself how financial markets work with various resources publicly available.
My comment:
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