Comments: Back in the 1990s when I started it was quite common for people who wanted to trade leveraged diversified products to establish a mutual fund account at Rydex (now part of Guggenheim). There were other products which were similar at the time though I think most have closed. The most popular trading were the Fidelity Select funds which had a 3% load specifically to allow for more rapid
A free market system is exactly what we need. When I say free market I mean the ability of the retail investor to make their own decisions based on their own personal risk/reward assessment. Retail investors are legal adults who are rational and responsible for their own actions. Retail investors are quite capable of using their own judgement to manage their money. Every responsible adult is
FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. I understand FINRA is attempting to create a fairer and transparent market but without strict reporting policies in place you
NASD is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission") a proposed rule change to (1) delete the Nasdaq By-Laws and amend the Plan of Allocation and Delegation of Functions by NASD to Subsidiaries ("Delegation Plan"), the By-Laws of NASD, NASD Regulation and NASD Dispute Resolution, and NASD rules to reflect The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.
[REDACTED] may go down when you continuously take power out of the hands of the people. First its taking everything down, and imposing manipulative quieting of political agenda/ideas not your own. Now you wanna make it impossible for anyone other than gazillionaires to live.this is not sustainable, nor constitutionally upheld behavior.there is a difference between patriotism and right wing dom.
I am writing to request that FINRA reform their short-sale and FTD reporting to the highest enforcement standards possible. Specifically, I am concerned that FINRA's current blindness with regard to alternate formations of short interest through "married puts" and arranged financing leads to unquantifiable systemic risk which can then be rolled over indefinitely with low borrow
I am a retail investor in my later 30's. I have only been contributing to my 401(k) for the last 4 years, and opened my Roth IRA in early 2020. I have not been investing very long, and plan to be working another 30 years before I'll have enough to retire on. I tell you this only because I want you to understand how totally and completely the last 18 months have shaken my confidence in
Our country and history has been brought about by change. Change that may have seemed difficult at the start, may have been viewed negatively, avoided, or even resisted, but eventually led to the greater good for all. This is no different. FINRA 21-19 is a change that needs to happen for the greater good of all. It’s a change that is long overdue and needs to be expedited into action. Where there
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