Thank you for allowing the opportunity to post feedback and make recommendations to make the system fair for all traders. I feel that short interest should be reported intraday. If a stock price can be updated within milliseconds then this should be possible too. I also feel that large institutions that have over 100,000 of any stock should have to report their short positions pre and post market
Fractional short shares must be included in reported short interest else the rule is pointless. Truncating will allow 10billion .5 shares to go unreported and should legally be reported as 5 billion short
As a retail investor, I firmly believe that the market NEEDS more transparency and regulation. If the FINRA is going to collect information on short interest accounts, arraigned financing agreements, and Failure or To Delivers, they should collect as much information as possible and retail investors should be able to use that information to make informed decisions. A. Publication of Short
FINRA 21-19 addresses many of the shortcomings of our opaque market. While I support the reporting enhancements, I would like to see further action taken by FINRA to bring transparency to short selling. Short selling, while providing liquidity to the market, also brings the challenge of unlimited risk. Unlimited risk (e.g. a short squeeze) drives market participants to engage in unethical and
Please consider that some investors utilize ETFs that are inversely related to financial instruments like stocks, indexes or bonds to short a market without the unlimited losses possible if shorting those instruments directly. These types of ETFs allow small investors to limit their risk and conveniently position themselves to benefit from declining markets.
Additionally, instruments that
Appropriate reporting requirements on short sales, institutional short selling and dark pool sales reporting. Outdated reporting requirements allows for the current institutional deceitfulness in its short selling practices
FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective
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We want better short sell reporting, end of day settlements, better short sell marking of shares, much stronger penalties or jail time for short sell violations, and market manipulation
The technology exists for shorts to be tracked and displayed to the retail market in real time. There should be five designations on the real time level two transactions: by the ask sell the bid, sell short, buy to cover, buy or sell last price. Algorithms should be disallowed from opening or closing short positions so all must intentionally participate in the short sale. This will allow for more
