FINRA

FINRA is the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, US brokers policing themselves under the SEC. It writes broker rules like the pattern day trader rule and publishes short interest twice a month. In the referee column of the US market map it is the name a headline uses when a broker is in trouble, and its data shows who is short and squeezable.

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  • SECThe SEC is the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the referee Congress built after 1929 exposed how little buyers…
  • Short interestShort interest is the number of a stock's shares sold short and not yet bought back, published twice a month by FINRA.…
  • NASDAQNasdaq is the American exchange that began in 1971 as one screen showing every dealer quote side by side, the first…
  • CFTCThe CFTC is the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the US referee for futures, swaps and anything shaped like a…
  • CME GroupCME Group is the Chicago exchange where futures on US stock indices, interest rates, gold, oil and copper trade…
  • US ETFA US ETF is an exchange-traded fund on a US exchange that holds a basket, usually an index, and trades all day like…

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