The additional transparency and short interest reporting rules that FINRA is proposing are a welcome start. All short interest reporting should be made available to the public for 2 reasons. First, this information directly impacts all investors. Second, it is clear that there is no way possible for FINRA, SEC or any other regulator to police the markets. By making all reported short interest information public will lead to a more transparent and therefore a more fair market.

Please investigate criminal activity such as naked shorting dark pool dumps into any hedge funds that are illegally affecting a market of any given stock.

To whom it may concern: I would like to know if there are plans to repair the fines in regards to short interest reporting, naked shorts and dark pool trading? I think that naked shorts should be fined based on the quantity of fake shares multiplied by the price of the share in question. So for 5 million fake shares at say $25 per share would result in a $125 million fine. This is a fair way, since you are penalizing the guilty party by making them pay the cost of each fake share that was created.

Daily reporting should be mandatory.

I’m just a small time retail investor and I know my opinion doesn’t matter… I’d just like to see maybe more regulation on the dark pool. You have market makers like citadel and many others not just them that also have hedge funds groups, they take trades and stash them in the dark pool. How could we allow the dark pool to have more volume then the actual market? Where do we draw the line in the sand with this manipulation? I mean I understand why we have it but it’s being used for other things now that much is obvious.

More transparency on short sales is for the greater good of markets. If a couple retail investors can run up a dead company like GameStop, just imagine what these large dollar firms are capable of doing to manipulate the markets without their buddies help. Then imagine a handful of these firms acting together for the same greater purpose.

In a fair and open market there should be transparency and a level playing field for all investors; be they retail or institutional. The # of shares shorted should be available IN REAL TIME throughout the trading day. Dark pool trading must be eliminated. We can clearly see that large institutions are buying massive quantities of AMC/GME stock (for example) on the dark pool and then flooding the public exchange with shares (via selling, short-selling and short laddering) in order to MANIPULATE THE PRICE DOWN.

Regulation is much needed to make the short market transparent

More frequent reporting of short positions, eg weekly. Positions, trade date (open), trade date (closed), holder. Optional price and positions without showing holder.

Make SI private and only for the purpose of enduring that shares held short are not greater than the float. Investors are tired of the memesters manipulating markets trying to force shorts to cover/margin calls.