Aug. 16, 2022
August 16, 2022 Reporting is good. It's always good. Data transparency, unless classified and a security risk, is never not good. In a market that institutions and retail alike take part in, there should not be one side that is exempt from disclosing their positions while having full access to the other side's positions. I hate to insinuate that retail and institutions are on different sides, but that is what it has become. PFOF and latency arbitrage are proof enough of that. I support the 15 minute reporting requirement. I support transparency on all trading sides, especially on something (shorting) that is constantly used as a predatory tool against companies strictly for financial gains of those shorting. If not banning it altogether, monitoring this activity for securities fraud should be a high priority. Shorting has been used to bankrupt companies in the past whilst never closing out of those shorting positions. This greed of finances in the system exposes our entire economy to great risk and, if extreme enough, can lead to full collapse.