Jan. 22, 2024
To whom it may concern, I, as a retail investor do not support SR-OCC-2024-001. This rule seems designed to protect bad bets. By not allowing margin calls to occur, it allows these bad bets to grow larger and larger creating potentially even bigger concerns for when putting the thumb on the scale just won't work. The FRM Officer seems to have an inherent conflict of interest--they want to protect OCC and its interest over the wider risk to the overall market these bad bets represent. This proposal calls out "Only one risk factor had 2-day expected shortfall short coverage under 99% while on idiosyncratic control settings that would have been above 99% on regular control settings, driven by one additional 2-day expected shortfall short exceedance." All the pertinent materials to further evaluate this rule are REDACTED--how can anyone truly judge if this proposal is effective or not? Again, when considering all these things, I do not support SR-OCC-2024-001. Sincerely, A retail investor Sent from Outlook