I would want all the of these actions implemented and a DAILY accounting of it in both graphing and table form made available for public consumption. I believe that short positions are a part of the market's functionality. However, only 1 level. That is, a true 1-to-1 correspondence of short to stock share. The delivery date MUST be cut down to 1 day without a 'kick-the-can' down the road opportunity. I do not want to see small cap and micro cap stocks to EVER be shorted. Shorting smaller companies can destroy innovation of new technologies and scientific breakthroughs.

Please increase market transparency through these proposed changes. Retail traders have a disadvantage because we have no access to these types of real-time data. We deserve to have accurate access to this data in a timely manner when we are investing, not weeks later. Perhaps, these changes will begin to level the playing field and allow retail traders begin to have faith that the goal is to have a fair open market again, the way it was intended to be. Right now, I have little faith that regulators and agencies are working to ensure a fair open market.

Let me begin by stating I believe the apparent inability to administer existent provisions regarding shorting and naked shorting demonstrates a gaping hole in the system. FINRA and all related regulatory bodies have ignored the scams played by the hedge funds in hiding their activities as well as permitting a hedge fund to be the major market maker in a security they intend to pummel and drive into the ground--oh, and of course they have insider sight lines.

Something should be in place where if you buy in dark pools you cannot sell the shares in open market to drop the price.

First I would like you to read this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/o1sggl/the_hidden_shorts_the_correlation_of_ftds_and/ I believe that institutions are hiding the true number of short positions on certain stocks, that they are doing this using rehypothication, dark pools, and shady (fraudulent?) use of puts and calls. I ask that FINRA consider the following changes: 1. Institutions must report the true number of short positions on a regular basis 2. Institutions may not use rehypothication to open short positions exceeding the float of a stock. 3.

Creating synthetic shares to create “liquidity” is a major concern within a free market in that it no longer allows a free market to operate, for it creates fraud. Liquidity is a natural component of the market that correctly occurs at the right price and is needed to find the securities price. When there is no liquidity, the price must go UP until a seller is willing to seek and create that liquidity, same with the sell side. I have NEVER heard of a time when synthetic shares are introduced to help somebody sell a security... why?

The current system is completely rigged against the small retail investor. Short sellers trade synthetic shares and naked shorts back and forth to one another- which creates downward pricing pressure on a stock. How does my 1 share compete against a Short Sellers 1 share that converts into 1000 synthetic shares? How is it possible 3X, 4X, 5X etc the entire float can be traded- with the large majority of trades being "hidden?" If Naked shorting is in fact against the law, why is that law never enforced? Naked shorting is done in broad daylight without penalties.

Hello, if someone is actually reading through these and actually cares I thank you. All the people want is a fair market with transparency. More and more people are losing faith in the stock market every day. Stocks like AMC are being manipulated every day in front of billions of people with nothing done. The short selling corruption with no consequences has gone long enough. These $10,000 fines for breaking rules to make hundreds of billions is a JOKE.

To Whom it May Concern: I believe institutions such as Citadel and Melvin need to stop manipulating the market by illegal tactics. Strict enforcement needs to take place when these companies violate the rules regarding synthetic shares and FTD's. Fines of 10k are merely a slap on the wrist for these companies. The amount of money that these companies have would be like a 1 cent fine in ratio to the retail investor. This doesn't seem fair. These companies are more than willing to just take the miniscule fine in order to continue engaging in their market manipulation practices.

The companies reporting short interest have been shown to not follow the rules and hide their short positions in various ways. There is no good reason that any information related to the financial system should be left up to self reporting. All information should be submitted and stored automatically as transactions are carried out and it should all be of public record. This record should be updated in real time and accessible on the web by any interested party at any time.