I believe if we want true transparency and a free market than shorts should have to report 100% of interest and short position. The SSR should be looked at for loopholes. Shorting is necessary but should be strongly regulated for the safety of U.S. companies.
Systematic short attacks on the retail investor should be illegal. Synthetic shorts have flooded the marketplace. Minimalistic fines are outdated & corrupting the American economy vicariously by encouraging such activity giving short sellers a slap on the wrist for robbing Americans.
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
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
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Regarding section D. "Information on Allocations of Fail-to-Deliver Positions" in the sections marked as "Identify of correspondent firm" and "Amount allocated to correspondent firm (number of shares). I believe that what constitutes a "Correspondent firm" and who this refers to exactly need to be more accurately defined in order to avoid misreporting or
FINRA's proposed strangulation is equivalent to banning short sales. Martin Armstrong adamantly defends short sellers because it is they (us) who buy when panic selling has taken over. The proposed controls of levered ETFs/ETNs protect the markets by providing access to retail investors to short selling and without margin entanglements.
I am in favor for an increase in short interest reporting regulation. More notably in adopting new regulations to have synthetic short positions reported to FINRA. Also short interest reporting should be increased from twice a month to daily and the dissemination should go down from 7 days to 2 days. I'm also in agreement to the purposed FTD changes, actually have any and all FTD settled in
First I would like you to read this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/o1sggl/the_hidden_shorts_the_correlation_of_ftds_and/ I believe that institutions are hiding the true number of short positions on certain stocks, that they are doing this using rehypothication, dark pools, and shady (fraudulent?) use of puts and calls. I ask that FINRA consider the following changes: 1.
