For far too long the stock market has been tilted/manipulated in favor of Wall Street. The issue is naked short selling. Despite being made illegal after the 2008–2009 financial crisis, naked shorting continues to happen because of loopholes in rules and discrepancies between paper and electronic trading systems. More often than you think great companies such as Clover Health. Clover Health was
Staff clarification of <i>NASD Notice to Members 96-60</i> regarding a member's suitability obligation under NASD Rule 2310.
Staff clarification of <em>NASD Notice to Members 96-60</em> regarding a member's suitability obligation under NASD Rule 2310.
(a) Quid Pro Quo Allocations
No member or person associated with a member may offer or threaten to withhold shares it allocates of a new issue as consideration or inducement for the receipt of compensation that is excessive in relation to the services provided by the member.
(b) Spinning
(1) No member or person associated with a member may allocate shares of a new issue to any account in which
The Best Execution, Outside Business Activities and Private Securities Transactions, Private Placements, and Reg BI and Form CRS sections of the 2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
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Independence Day: Trade Date — Settlement Date Schedule
The Nasdaq Stock MarketSM and the securities exchanges will be closed on Thursday, July 4, 1996, in observance of Independence Day. "Regular way" transactions made on the business days noted below will be
SR-FINRA-2008-064 - Proposed Rule Change to Amend NASD Interpretive Material (IM) 2110-2 (Trading Ahead of Customer Limit Order) to provide an Alternative Method of Calculating the Current Inside Spread
To Whom it May Concern: I believe institutions such as Citadel and Melvin need to stop manipulating the market by illegal tactics. Strict enforcement needs to take place when these companies violate the rules regarding synthetic shares and FTD's. Fines of 10k are merely a slap on the wrist for these companies. The amount of money that these companies have would be like a 1 cent fine in ratio
I would be categorized as a "retail" trader. The assumptions being made in this proposal are insulting, it wrongly assumes so called retail traders are uneducated in many of the products named in this proposal. The assumption non-professional traders lack understanding of these products is not what I see on a daily basis. I trade with hundreds of other traders in a Discord chat room and
Having been a retail investor for over two decades, I only recently discovered the extent of market manipulation really going on behind the scenes. I applaud your organization's proposed changes. Specifically I believe the markets would benefit from public dissemination, in real time, the short positions, dark pool flow, and FTD's. I personally would go further, requiring a responsible
