To me, it is absolutely absurd that short positions are not required to be reported. If you require long positions to be reported, why shouldn't short positions? It seems as though the regulators are far too concerned with keeping the status quo and are letting hedge funds run wild, in a largely unregulated portion of the market. We have seen numerous short squeezes this year arising from
This ability by hedge funds and market makers to indiscriminately and malignantly sell short in multiple ways to hide short interest hurts the market for retail. I’m sure if the entire retail sector of the market understood the various ways short interest is hidden and how their long investments were used against them to reduce the value of their investments, they would never invest in the market
Dear FINRA Committee members, It is this commenter's genuine hope that short selling is banned as it serves counter-purpose to the two primary functions of the Stock Market, Capital Allotment, and Price Discovery. As such an act would likely remove the need for FINRA, and it is unjust to request this forum to consider self-destruction. Instead, this comment hopes to serve as a basic appeal
As a small retail investor investing for me and my families future I’m glad to hear that sunlight is finally leaking into the shorting faculties of our market. Accurate and honest short interest reporting helps reassure me as an individual investor that larger institutions aren’t abusing gaps in reporting to get an unfair advantage and add instability and volatility to our markets. That being
I believe short interest positions need to be more transparent with mandatory declaration of short positions and frequent updates on those positions. after the fallout of "GME" having over 100% short interest, it shows that there is widespread abuse of the current short sale reporting which leads to major market and security instability
Pursuant to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission request, FINRA makes short sale trade data publicly available for off-exchange (i.e., OTC) trades in exchange-listed securities reported to a FINRA Trade Reporting Facility (TRF). FINRA makes two types of files available: (1) Daily Short Sale Volume Files; and (2) Monthly Short Sale Transaction Files (collectively, the Short Sale Files).
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Anytime reported shorting goes from a high percentage to a lower one without any sign of short squeezing and the price of a stock continues to drop, should immediately trip a signal to report for investigation. For instance, when AMC was showing a reported shorting percentage of over 18% on July 6th and then today, the 13th, the stock drops drastically and shows it’s now 15% shorted from borrowed
Make short selling more transparent (e.g daily data). Participants have to file in the long positions, but not the shorts, why? Disallow "data manipulation" by fake covering with worthless deep OTM options. Remove loopholes based on T+2 settlement. Why even T+2? Make it T+0 already. Why allow shorting of stocks on the security threshold list by short excempt? It seems not appropriate to
Consolidation of short interest data publication, centralized on the FINRA website should be made public. Require firms to segregate short interest held in proprietary accounts vs that held in customer accounts. Report to FINRA account-level short interest (not for publication). Report synthetic short positions in both options and security based swaps. Report loan obligations from arranged
Eliminate dark pools Fines should be greater than the profit hedge made from the illegal activity Jail time is needed for market manipulation. Short positions should be forcibly closed out if illegal market manipulation is found and trading rights of those involved should be revoked. Shorting taking place in the dark pool needs to be disclosed to the public. If an institution buys shares in the
