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[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

At first glance, this kinda seems crazy to me. I need to better understand it, but it really seems like the SEC is trying to push trading outside of regulated entities entirely. From a market manipulation perspective this seems like an enforcement nightmare.

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

It's amazing this guy doesn't understand issuers don't want synthetic tokens. He cannot grasp that markets are supposed to serve a purpose for capital formation and price discovery. He sees them as casinos - the more you trade, the more money he gets paid by his actual customers.

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

There's less than a week to get your comment letter in on the SEC's proposal to eliminate rule 611. There's no need to be cynical about whether it will help or not - even if it doesn't change the SEC's mind, it establishes an important record.
https://t.co/mkChWDFpFn

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

The SEC has proposed to rescind Rule 611 - the Order Protection Rule. This will remove the last guardrail that individual investors have to protect the price they get when they trade. If this succeeds, you'll have to trust internalizers to give you the best price, and FINRA to enforce best execution - something they've proven incapable of doing. If you're interested, I wrote a post: https://t.co/27pmkiAtXF

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

Last month the SEC proposed to remove Rule 611 - the order protection rule. Instead of replacing it w/something better - a rigorous best ex standard - they simply want to get rid of it. This is a terrible idea & will increase market manipulation.

https://t.co/mkChWDFpFn

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

The order protection rule protects individual investors from trade throughs - bad executions outside the NBBO. The SEC has admitted that this will cost investors money, and will save little. Yet they want to push ahead.

The primary reason is for crypto and tokenized securities.

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

Also apparently Medicaid/Medicare fraud, holy shit. Anyone know why the government has failed to police this fraud at scale? What can DOGE do? This article says we need to spend MORE money, not less!

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

Ann Wagner laying out the case against the SEC's equity market rule proposals. No surprise...

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

Good info from @esInvests here to clarify that E-Trade doesn't include the premium in the cost basis. This confirms that @TheRoaringKitty sold his options position and then purchased shares. There were no options exercised.

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

Quite the increase in short selling liabilities. Looks pretty correlated to market performance, with some outlier moves. Might be interesting to look deeper.

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

Today started with $GME as a low volume meltup but ended at 11!

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

The interesting thing to me on $GME is not pre-market action, although a ~75% move is not nothing. The interesting thing will be when @TheRoaringKitty's option contract gets slammed into when the options market opens. How many will tail him? What will that do to the underlying?

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

$GME up almost 75% in pre-market, over $40.

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

$GME otoh

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

Market's not happy...

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

$GME going parabolic in pre-market, up to $80 now on real volume.

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

That was a wild candle at 8am - huge volume came in, the range was $56.16 - $79.99.

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

$GME now trading over $48, up 58% from yesterday's close. Note that you can see pre-market trading on @UrvinFinance: https://t.co/kdWVvw3rWQ

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

Today $GME traded 177M shares. With 75M shares DRS'd and 40M held by insiders, that's nearly the entire free float of ~190M shares. Other stocks traded even more than that. That's not normal - FTD reports for this will be pretty interesting.

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

Urvin's Market Movers this afternoon, weighted by today's volume / average daily volume. Some really extreme volume levels today.
https://t.co/jhG4fbjqkl