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.
It is critical for the stability of the US markets and investor confidence that short interest reporting covers every known circumstance where short positions -- synthetic or not -- exists. THE POLICY SHOULD BE COMPREHENSIVE SO THAT NO SHORT POSITION CAN GO UNACCOUNTED FOR. Reporting gaps must be bridged. Policy must be consistently enforced. This is long overdue.
1. Please abolish SHORT SALES 2. If abolishing short sales is not possible, please make the short sale positions of hedge funds and institutions PUBLIC, RELIABLE and Accountable. 3. Please serve the US public and humans across the globe by taking serious action against criminals - not just with a fine of $10,000 for a crime that amount to $1 Billion.
I would like to see accurate daily reporting of short interest of stocks including how many synthetic shares have been produced to short a stock. I would like all methods of "can kicking" FTDs through options chains eliminated. Short hedge funds should only be allowed to short a stock by actually borrowing real shares of stock for a specified period of time and must return those shares
B. Content of Short Interest Data - The addition of reporting short interest by categories to give a more accurate picture of which entities hold what positions is great for accountability and keeping an open fair market. - Yes. Any short/long position should be reported the same. Synthetic short positions have a history of being used to conceal a form of market manipulation due to its ability to
A market is based on supply and demand. A stock market is based on supply and demand. The price on the stock market is normally made by buying and selling shares. Shorting is something else... like someone wants to see a company go bankrupt. In my view this is not the case if investing and the US need to stop allowing shorting. The short interest should not be self reported. That doesn’t make any
First: Short selling to drive companies out of business should be illegal. All short sales should be made public before trading starts every day. Easily accessible NOT buried on a remote website. Short sales in excess of 1% of outstanding stock should be reported immediately and displayed with the stocks ticker symbol.
Does FINRA only wish to cater to the "RICH CATS" of Wall Street? ETFs are a Godsend to smaller investors, WHOM can NOT open $1 Million + accounts with Goldman Sachs, or Morgan Stanley....and get special privileges (edges) like getting 1st dibs on new IPOs etc. NOW, inverse funds are under review so SMALL fry WILL NOT be allowed to 'short' sectors of the markets? MUST we all
More transparency in short positions is necessary for a fair market. There are currently too many methods of obscuring the real short interest of certain securities which creates an unfair environment for retail investors. FINRA should make more information about short sales public as well as investigate further into how synthetic shares are being created and hidden.
