1/ Synthetic short positions should be included in short interest reports. 2/ REGSHO- information of allocations of FTD's should definately be updated. daily report of FTD's should be mandatory.3/Publication of short interest for Exchange listed Equity securities to include both OTC & Exchange should also be implemented. 4/ Rule 4560-Loan obligations regarding short position
Your proposed regulations of inverse and leveraged funds are unnecessary. The prospectuses already give adequate warning of the risks involved in these investments. Your proposed regulation would prevent people like me from benefiting from the investment strategies offered by inverse and leveraged funds. The use of these types of funds also provide a way for IRAs to short markets. Without these
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
As all short interest affects market pricing, all transactions between market participants that may be used to mask or hide official short interest numbers should be reported fully and transparently. It is against the idea of a free market to withhold short interest data from all market participants, including retail investors, and to only provide information to professionals.
As a retail investor, I am concerned about the fairness of the current financial system. Having read many theoretical posts on r/Superstonk about the economy and doing my own research, I believe that more regulation on shorting is necessary in order to avoid the unfair devaluation of companies and protect smaller companies from its effects. In particular, more needs to be done about Fail-to-
The FINRA 21-19 is a long waited change in the stock market. The integrity of the US stuck market has been tarnished. So much in fact that is teders on the edge of collapse. This is partially caused by the risks surrounding short interest reporting under the regulation of FINRA. Even though FINRA 21-19 focusses on a broader spectrum of ineffective reporting, the certain gaps in the 21-19 could
FINRA 21-19 is a much needed change. It has become clear that the integrity of the United States market has been detrimentally impacted, 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
Short positions should be reported daily along with short interest.
I oppose restrictions on my right to invest in the investments that i choose. I, not regulators, should decide what investment strategy is good for me. If you regulate leveraged and inverse funds, what investments will you regulate in the future? This is a slippery slope. Inverse funds are great for a hedge. And what is the issue, shorting has been allowed forever and is much more risky due to
