Hi and as an American citizen I should be able to choose what investment is right for me and not a regulator. Public investment should available for all citizens. I shouldnt have to go through a test to be able trade my funds based on my interest and risk tolerance. I am capable of researching and understanding the risk of what I want to invest in. Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my
Once again, people in government want to do what's best for you. Our elected representatives want to be able to control how I trade leveraged funds. I don't get to chose how my elected representatives trade, yet I am consistently taken advantage of by my elected representatives. Think about how ridiculous it is to only let people of very high net worth trade leveraged funds in their
All financial market participants should be able to make their own investment choices. There are already too many restrictions on net worth allowing the rich to make investments that others cannot access. We dont need FINRA or any other government agency to tell us what to invest in and what not to invest in. Vanguard is already doing this and I am taking my business to another brokerage. Also,
Exemptive Letter to Christopher M. Wells, Proskauer Rose LLP
TO: All NASD Members and Level 2 and Level 3 Subscribers
On Tuesday, October 21, 1986, 12 issues are scheduled to join the NASDAQ National Market System, bringing the total number of issues in NASDAQ/NMS to 2,602. These 12 issues, which will begin trading under real-time trade reporting, are entering NASDAQ/NMS pursuant to the Securities and Exchange Commission's criteria for
Dear FINRA: I'm a long term buy & hold retail investor of leveraged exchange traded funds (ETFs.) I am a significant shareholder of ProShare's ETF "UPRO" at owning 0.01% of all outstanding shares, and of Direxion's "TMF" owning 0.07% of all outstanding shares. If you were to consider me an institution, I'd be rank #12 of ownership in terms of shares
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) a proposed rule change to extend the current pilot program related to FINRA Rule 11892 (Clearly Erroneous Transactions in Exchange-Listed Securities) (“Clearly Erroneous Transaction Pilot” or “Pilot”) until October 20, 2021.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to adjust FINRA fees to provide sustainable funding for FINRA’s regulatory mission.
The companies reporting short interest have been shown to not follow the rules and hide their short positions in various ways. There is no good reason that any information related to the financial system should be left up to self reporting. All information should be submitted and stored automatically as transactions are carried out and it should all be of public record. This record should be
Short position disclosure should be required of all market makers, hedge funds, financial institutions, etc. in the interest of a fair, free market. The fact that, even now, these institutional investors haven't been required to report short positions, dark pool trades--or even the fact that a "dark pool" is allowed to exist"--goes against the integrity of the market itself.
