As a concerned investor and with regard for the overriding desire for free, fair and open markets, I return the following comments. 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 (
Only available can create a short position & make shorts repay 4 times the amount they shorted when it’s time to cover there loss.
As a mostly outside observer who has be diving into the inner workings of the mechanics behind short selling, I've noticed that the lack of transparency effectively makes it impossible to determine the overall value of the short positions that exist, along with a lack of information about how many synthetic shares are created and how positions are opening and closing on a regular basis. This
What implementation period would be appropriate to provide members with sufficient time to make the systems changes necessary to comply with this requirement? Change needs to happen as soon as possible, immediately to restore faith in the markets. To make these crooked markets somewhat fair to retail investors. FINRA is considering whether daily or weekly short interest position reporting would
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
Finra should absolutely be stricter on the frequency and the details reported on shorts and short interest. No company should be getting shorted any more than 75%
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
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
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
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