And a simple phone call to TDA or Schwab declares the $2.50 rule applies to the retail and is EXEMPT in some situations for market makers and institutions! Spend the dime and call them yourself! Hmmm???
TDA/Schwab actually quoted/contacted regarding said OTC matters no dime needed have a direct line for each on speed dial ;-) along w/ several other brokerages
btw only MM exemption
Market making-related activities: Under this exemption, a trading desk is required to routinely stand ready to purchase and sell one or more types of financial instruments.
What are the rules for market makers? Market Maker Definition: What It Means and How They Make Money A market maker must commit to continuously quoting prices at which it will buy (or bid for) and sell (or ask for) securities. 1 Market makers must also quote the volume in which they're willing to trade along with the frequency of time they will quote at the best bid and best offer prices.
Rule 200(g) provides that a broker-dealer may mark certain qualifying sell orders “short exempt.” The information collected under Rule 201's written policies and procedures requirement applicable to trading centers, the written policies and procedures requirement of the broker-dealer provision of Rule 201(c), the ...Oct 24, 2022
Simple math verifies agnotology 4ALL 2C 38,000,000 x $2.50= $95,000,000 margin requirement would have been needed
Deliberate ignorance is a culturally-induced phenomenon, the study of which is called agnotology.
What is failure to deliver settlement date? In financial markets, if a seller does not deliver stock or a buyer does not pay owed funds by the settlement date—which in the US is the trade date plus two days (T+2)—then the transaction is said to fail. Fails turn into aged fails when the trade still has not settled 30 days after the trade date.
What does it mean when short shares are returned? Short selling is when a trader borrows shares from a broker and immediately sells them with the expectation that the share price will fall shortly after. If it does, the trader can buy the shares back at the lower price, return them to the broker, and keep the difference, minus any loan interest, as profit. Jul 5, 2023
The cost of borrowing a stock to short can vary but typically ranges from 0.3% to 3% per year. The fees are applied daily. The borrowing fee can be much higher than 3%, and can even exceed 100% in extraordinary cases, as it is influenced by multiple factors. May 9, 2022
The $2.50 rule is a rule that affects short sellers. It basically means if you short a stock trading under $1, it doesn't matter how much each share is — you still have to put up $2.50 per share of buying power. Sep 2, 2022
" 1st leg recorded as short until 2nd leg completed " This is the part that a lot of folks just don't get, when touting that CLICK BAIT site. (OTC ShortReport) They can take an order and fill it without actually having the shares to sell, therefore it is short, but usually for seconds, until they get the shares from somewhere else. Then the "short" is closed. Not at all a true short sale.