Buy-Ins and Close-Outs of Fails
Chapters in this video
- 0:00 The Tale of Two Fails: buy-ins vs. Regulation SHO
- 1:54 Standard buy-in rules and the three-business-day earliest date
- 3:19 Special buy-in paths: cash, guaranteed delivery, and customer buyers
- 4:28 Regulation SHO deadlines: standard and extended mandatory close-outs
- 5:17 Deemed-owned delivery restriction: purchase-only and 35 calendar days
- 6:24 Rapid-fire exam recap
What this video covers
- The standard buy-in: why the third business day following the date delivery was due is the earliest permitted execution date, not a mandatory deadline
- The notice requirement: when written notice must precede execution, and when it can follow instead
- The two execution blockers for a standard buy-in (proof request, and physical possession notice), and why acceptance controls the entire process
- Cash and guaranteed-delivery contracts: why next-day execution without advance notice is permitted, and why the buyer must still send notice after execution
- The customer-buyer procedure: why a clearing corporation failure forces a cash purchase in the best available market or a purchase for guaranteed delivery, and why the defaulting party bears the account and liability
- Regulation SHO close-out deadlines: the settlement-day-following rule for standard long and short sale fails, and the third consecutive settlement day extension for documented long sales and bona fide market makers
- The deemed-owned delivery restriction exception: why it is 35 consecutive calendar days from the trade date, why purchase-only applies, and why the seller's intent to deliver when restrictions end is required
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