February 7, 2022
\"Prohibition Against Fraud, Manipulation, or Deception in Connection with Security-Based Swaps Prohibition against Undue Influence over Chief Compliance Officers Position Reporting of Large Security-Based Swap Positions\"
The title of this rule proposal alone boggles my mind. The fact that there are no mechanisms currently in place prohibiting manipulation or deception with security-based swaps is dumbfounding. The overwhelming amount of evidence that has surfaced over the past year regarding naked short selling, algorithmic trading, PFOF, insider trading, stock bashing by the media, dark pool utilization etc. has done nothing to provide me, a retail trader, with a sense of security that my investments in the stock market are based off of market fundamentals or a realistic valuation of a company. The market is nothing more than a mechanism for financial institutions and mega-cap companies to become richer while retail traders and small-medium cap companies get smashed for no apparent reason.