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.
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 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
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
There needs to be transparency in the market. Daily reporting of shorts. FTD’s need to be taken care of immediately. If you can short billions of dollars daily, you should be able to cover those shorts daily. Also there needs to be serious and real consequences like jail time, not a fine for these things. Oh and darkpools shouldn’t be legal
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.
It is critical 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 circumstance where effective short positions, synthetic or not, can go unaccounted for for any length of time greater than any other short position reporting deadline.
This is my first and most sincere comment to FINRA guidance and rulings Throughout my last few years of investing and last year of seriously understanding the markets -- there is no doubt in my mind that the framework of reporting and filling short positions on stocks is absolutely the most murky and shark infested water in the entire market. The reporting framework and the amount of loopholes
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
I would like to see Short interest not be self reported anymore and for it to be reported from regulators such as Finra or the DTCC. If no such action is possible, I would like to see harder fines for misreporting Short Interest, especially if it is a bigger institution as to smaller investors, the fine does not seem harsh enough to get those to stop misreporting short interest
