August 27, 2021
1. Do you have one or more online trading or investment accounts?
Yes, I have one or more accounts that I access both online using a computer and using a mobile app.
2. If your response to Question 1 is Yes, do you think you would trade or invest if you could not do so online using a computer or using a mobile app?
No
3. On average, how often do you access your online account?
Daily/more than once a day
4. On average, how often are trades made in your online account, whether by you or someone else?
Once to a few times a week.
5. If you access your account online, did you have the account first, and only began to access it electronically later? Or did you open the account with the idea that you would access it electronically immediately?
I had a pre-existing account and downloaded an app or visited a website to access my account
6. My goals for trading or investing in my online account are (check all that apply):
Save and grow my money for short-term goals (in the next year or two)
Save and grow my money for medium- to long-term goals
7. What would you like us to know about your experience with the features of your online trading or investment platform? (Examples of features are: social networking tools games, streaks, or contests with prizes points, badges, and leaderboards notifications celebrations for trading visual cues, like changing colors ideas presented at order placement or other curated lists or features subscription and membership tiers or chatbots.)
I would like to have full control do decide if my order is executed in a lit exchange, and I want full transparency of my broker dealer in each transaction and my right to object to sending or bundling my order to be processed in a dark pool.
8. If you were trading or investing prior to using an online account, how have your investing and trading behaviors changed since you started using your online account? (For example, the amount of money you have invested, your interest in learning about investing and saving for retirement, the amount of time you have spent trading, your knowledge of financial products, the number of trades you have made, the amount of money you have made in trading, your knowledge of the markets, the number of different types of financial products you have traded, or your use of margin.)
I trade more often
9. How much experience do you have trading or investing in the following products (None, 12 months, 1-2 years, 2-5 years, 5+ years):
Stocks : 5+ Years
Bonds :
Options :
Mutual Funds : 2-5 Years
ETFs :
Futures :
Cryptocurrencies : 2-5 Years
Commodities : 2-5 Years
ClosedEnd Funds :
Money Market Funds :
Variable Insurance Products :
Business Development Companies :
Unit Investment Trusts :
10. What is your understanding, if any, of the circumstances under which trading or investing in your account can be suspended or restricted?
11. What else would you like us to know positive or negative - about your experience with online trading and investing?
I expect the SEC to suspend dark pool abuse by HF and other institutions (e.g. AMC and GME stock volumes traded in the DP vs lit Exchanges). Stop Hedgefonds to leverage loopholes dating back to 1940 regulations (which you had the power to change since but have proven unable (or not willing?)) to close. This today enables HF to naked short Companies to death, and to hide their FTDs with ETFs and other instruments in the Caymans, because they are not requested to report any of these transactions due to exemption regulations agreed which you, signed off in secret deals dating back to 2008/2009. Does that sound familiar Gary?
You guys suck in execution and your lack of action smells like you all make a cut from letting hedgies get away with it. If all of the above assumptions are not true, why don't you take action?
I expect SEC to make retail investing a fair and transparent undertaking again. Once and for all, it is about f... time