As a retail investor I believe that the provably widespread practice of naked shorting dilutes the share pool of companies that I believe in which artificially lowers stock prices. It is a method that predatory short hedge funds use to drive stock prices down, rather than allowing the market to engage in true price discovery. This causes companies which might otherwise be beneficial to society to
I would like to see the following changes: Require that firms include synthetic short positions On the FINRA website- Make available short interest data for all equity securities (listed and unlisted). Short interest and short sale volume to be disclosed at a daily frequency Require firms to report short interest positions at the account level Require a report of daily allocations of fail-to-
While appreciative of the gesture, there must be action behind it. We are in a new era of retail investing and the rules still favor the Goliath's of wall street. Complete transparency and equality in the reporting of data must be enforced. Retail should have the same access to information, data and tools that hedge funds and market makers have access to. More importantly, ACCOUNTABILITY for
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved an amendment to Article III, Section 28 of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice requiring an associated person to notify the employer member in
Limiting the ability for all investors to choose the investments that they want us a large overstep by regulators. Rules such as these do not provide additional protection to investors but instead provide hurdles for individuals that they cannot meet and limits their access to potential enhanced returns.
Broker dealers already provide disclosures that clients have to agree to before their
