I support this effort to improve the accuracy, requirements, and meaning behind the short interest metric. A more expansive reporting requirement that captures synthetic short positions would allow FINRA to be better able to understand market participants’ short sale-related activity. As synthetic short positions provide equivalent exposure, information on them may also provide investors and
Short interest reporting should be instantaneous. Not sure why the reporting on SI and other short positions data is so delayed and unreliable but for the market to be fair, both sides of positions need to see all data equally for manipulation to be in check. If changes to short data being made available publicly and in reasonable times then I fear the market will never be fair and retail
I use inverse etfs to hedge my portfolio. Similar to long only etfs, it allows short position across a broader spectrum than a single stock short position. In my circumstance, understanding and managing the risks of utilizing an inverse etf are a much better way to manage downside risk than the complexity of shorting individual stocks.
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Some of the self-regulatory organizations (SROs) comprising the Intermarket Surveillance Group (ISG) agreed to adopt policies to ensure uniform reporting of all short interest in traded securities. The NASD has amended Article III, Section 41 of the NASD
FINRA 21-19 is a direly needed change. The US market is in dire straights due to FINRA's inability to adequately police short interest. There are still gaps, however. It is ESSENTIAL for the restoration of both the stability of the US markets and the confidence of the investors within it that ANY and ALL regulation changes regarding short interest reporting be effective in EVERY known
First I want to say that the money I use to invest or trade the market is mine and I should be able to use it as I see fit. I often use inverse funds to hedge or take advantage of short term pull backs in the market. It seems to me to be a lot easier to buy an inverse fund than to acquire shares to short or use an options strategy. I also often use long leveraged funds to take advantage of the
I think shorting leveraged ETFs should be disallowed. Perhaps that'd go a way in reducing systematic market risk from these financial instruments? There are plenty leveraged ETFs designed just for shorting an index and it makes no sense to me that one might prefer shorting the ETF itself. It more easily con-volutes one's thinking than just buying the bearish ETF.
A. Providing short interest information to the public for free is a requirement to ensure the retail public's trust in the market. Without access to this information, the average retail investor is at a huge disadvantage when it comes to making trading decisions. Finra should take charge and publish this information daily, so retail investors can make timely decisions about their trading
Short-selling of stocks should be abolished. The practice is damaging because it artificially lowers stock prices. The practice of profiting from a company's failures is immoral. By selling shares that they do not possess, short-sellers temporarily reduce stock prices, because if those transactions had not occurred, fewer shares would be available for buyers to purchase. Short-sellers
Report short positions for a company they need to be enforced. Company's are super overleveraged and they are hiding these transactions and masking their short positions/Naked shorts to manipulate the stock market. Retail traders are the backing of these companies Like AMC and GME yet these institutions can do whatever they want behind closed doors.