To whom it may concern: 1. Consolidation of short interest data publication, centralized on the FINRA website should be made public. 2. Require firms to segregate short interest held in proprietary accounts vs that held in customer accounts. 3. Report to FINRA account-level short interest (not for publication). 4. Report synthetic short positions in both options and security based swaps. 5.
I would like to point out two proposals that I absolutely think must be accepted. The others are still very good to increase accountability and reestablish some semblance of trust. "Synthetic Short Positions: In addition, FINRA is considering requiring firms to reflect synthetic short positions in short interest reports. For example, enhanced short interest reporting could include synthetic
"Synthetic Short Positions: In addition, FINRA is considering requiring firms to reflect synthetic short positions in short interest reports." This should be implemented as a daily report with no T+ days.
Short selling restrictions. They should be forced to cover all short positions weekly if not daily. Market makers and hedge funds should not have the ability to short during pre or after market while most retail investors and the apps used are shackled to not being allowed to buy. Hedge funds should have to report daily their short positions and accurately, they should not be allowed to police
Hello FINRA, As an active retail investor, I would like to see brokerages be held accountable to publish hourly (maximum, daily) short interest position figures that include: - The volume of short interest positions taken by their clients in a given hour or day - Details on all of the short interest orders, including specifically the price and quantity of short interest orders that have occurred
Short sellers should be required to report their short positions daily, of all trades on the lit exchange and the dark pools. Failure to do so should results in forfeiting all profits made and in case of a loss, short sellers should be fined half of the amount they lost, if short sellers continue to not follow the rules fines should increase for 2nd and 3rd offense, after the third strike, a
My concern with shorting a stock is the impact that action has on the company. By shorting 100% of a company's stock (or more!), the stock may drop to a low enough price that the company can't survive regardless of the underlying value. I would suggest a cap on the percentage of a company's outstanding shares that can be shorted, say 60%. This would allow the investor the ability
In my opinion... All investors from hedge funds, to retail investors to those considering investing in a stock should be able to see the exact same data that hedge funds, and clearing houses and brokers see. It should all be in real time and it should be free. This needs to include Dark Pool data. Short interest should be reported in real time, and the number of shorted shares should never exceed
SSR doesn't work when market makers such as Citadel Securities can still mark a short exempt. Short exempt is supposed to be an exception but every time $amc is on SSR the counts of short exempts is extremely high. Citadel's hedge fund profits from their market maker's ability to short during SSR as do the options contracts held by Citadel Securities. This is an unfair competitive
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
