It can be difficult to recover assets lost to fraud or other scenarios in which an investor has experienced a problem with an investment. But there are legitimate ways to attempt recovery. In most cases you can do so on your own—at little or no cost.
SummaryFINRA has amended its Codes of Arbitration Procedure (Codes) to make: (1) changes to the arbitrator list selection process in response to recommendations in the report of independent counsel Lowenstein Sandler LLP (Report) and (2) clarifying and technical changes to requirements in the Codes for holding prehearing conferences and hearing sessions, initiating and responding to claims,
Member Assessments
The NASD amended Section 1, Schedule A to the NASD By-Laws to increase the credit against a member's annual gross income assessment from 62 to 67 percent for calendar year 1993. The credit will be reduced to 59 percent for 1994.
Because members have already paid their 1993 assessments with the 62 percent credit in effect, the increase to 67 percent will create a credit
FINRA’s Board of Governors held its fifth and final meeting of the year on December 6-7. During the meeting, the Board approved two rule proposals and FINRA’s 2024 proposed budget , and continued discussions around FINRA’s financials, including expenses and the drawdown of reserves. The Board also appointed new members to the National Adjudicatory Council (NAC) and the Small Firm Advisory Committee (SFAC), and previewed the 2024 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report.
Hello FINRA, First, off thank you allowing public comment on the need to better regulate options and trades involving short positions and shorting instruments. Please let ask a simple question: If Failure to Delivers on the Threshold list can be satisfied with borrowed shares, who is the owner of the settled delivery? Why have a Threshold list at all if it is ignored when the settlement period is
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
The following is a list of NASD Notices to Members issued during the second and third quarters of 1985. 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.
Notice Number
Date
Topic
85-22
April 8, 1985
NASDAQ
I have been trading leveraged securities for many years starting with Guggenheim Funds (previously traded as Leveraged RYDEX Funds). My success with these investments helped me finance 100% college educations of my 2 sons, all way to JD / MBA and Finance MBA. That totals to 14 years of college education. Later, I replaced RYDEX Funds with ETF (TQQQ, SOXL, QLD) to help me with my retirement
As a smaller investor (net worth <$1,000,000), I find that there is great value in being able to trade with a leveraged product. By using a leveraged product that does not require me to use personal margin, I can keep myself debt free, use a leveraged product, obtain the benefit of either rising or falling markets, and hedge long or short. I trade and focus on the S&P 500 only.
Once again, I have been Informed by ProShares that further restrictions are being considered on leveraged and inverse exchange traded funds. As I stated previously, these are among the best vehicles available in the market. I have made my living as an individual investor since February 1980. As I also stated, I have now used these vehicles for more than a decade and they have been consistently
I am infuriated about the current proposed FINRA Rule #22-08! I, not some buerocratic regulators in Washington, D.C. should decide where, when and how I invest my money. It is my money, that I have earned and that I fully am aware of the potential risks, pitfalls, benefits, and otherwise that I put myself in when I invest in any investment - traditional or otherwise. I should not need to jump
