This may be true but positions have to be reported every 15 days
False. As I stated earlier, any orders placed via smart otrder routing which are the majority of orders placed these days, don't go thru finra. We will never know true short numbers. Ever.
Exactly, the rationalizations for not doing all you listed are detrimental to the company. If they have the cash and gold claimed they Definitely have the resources to complete the gold and books audit! If you don’t want to be regarded as a house of cards, prove you are not.
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