They're back! I think its firms trading amongst themselves, until retail Joe bites. IMO
the number of security firms expelled by FINRA has risen 25% since 2006. Checkout www.finra.org/brokercheck
you'll find:
the firm executed short sale orders and failed to properly mark the order as short, 01/20/10, fine 112,500.
12/16/04, fine 12,500,000.
23 total sanctions. I really don't want to read anymore. I trust they learned their lesson. This is only 1 security firm.