Better reporting on short interest, including synthetic positions hidden in the options chain Full transperancy of the Dark Pool markets - why does more than half the daily volume come from darkpool?? where are those shares? Vastly steeper fines/prison sentences for being misleading regarding short posistions. Your punnishments in the past have merely rewarded the bad actors, they scam us for millions of dollars - and you charge them thousand dollar fines. the fines must be equal to the crime.

Dear FINRA: Firstly, I would like to thank you for giving the investor community an opportunity to be heard. For countless years, the investor community is deeply frustrated over the continuous manipulation of our financial system. I would like to address the following deep rooted issues regarding short selling within our financial system, and suggest possible solutions to mitigate risk in the financial markets. - There is a huge concern as to why short share availability, and short interest percentage is self-reported by financial institutions.

T+0. Instant settlement. No trading outside the lit market. No securing exchange security positions with bonded products; cash, margin, or owned stock only. Selling synthetic shorts depresses the stock price and defrauds the company in favor of market maker profits. Liquidity will come with instant settlement.

Short position disclosure should be required of all market makers, hedge funds, financial institutions, etc. in the interest of a fair, free market. The fact that, even now, these institutional investors haven't been required to report short positions, dark pool trades--or even the fact that a "dark pool" is allowed to exist"--goes against the integrity of the market itself. Require immediate-short position reporting. Kill the dark pool. Save America.

Recommend weekly reporting by from financial institutions and made public on stocks shorted and positions held for shorted stocks. Require increase financial penalties in excess of 75% of invested value to errors in reporting shorted positions

It is more than obvious that several agencies are not complying with the rules for naked shorts and FTD's. Retail investors should have the same real time information as hedge funds to include short interest and real time trading.

As a retail investor, I would like to even the playing field with institutional investors by allowing us the same access to information that they have, especially regarding short positions. Also, in addition to that, I would like short positions to have to be reported daily by no later than 30min after closing bell. This is MORE than enough time for them to calculate their total shorts taken that day. Also, making dark pools more transparent to people "not allowed" to use them is essential for transparency concerns as well.

Haven't been investing very Long, but what I'm seeing seems like it's all in favor of the big company's and not for the individual investor. I like what you want to do with the rule changes, but talking about it, isn't good enough. NEED TO SEE ACTION, from all levels.

Data transparency is a must of having reliability, responsibility, and accountability within in financial industry. Without the full faith and trust in a fair system, myself and other investors would see no reason to put our hard earned money at risk to the "Wall Street Boys Club". As such, all information about short sale positions, short interest, etc. must be publicly and freely available in real time immediately. Need to do away with "short exempt", crack down on naked short selling, and the ability to sale on Dark pools.

To whom it may concern: It is my understanding FINRA is looking for comments on 21-19, regarding short posions. I think it is very clear that the current US market is full of nothing but fraud, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit through their complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulaon through naked short selling by large hedgefunds like Citadel and Susquehana being allowed to happen with impunity.