Good afternoon, I am not very educated in the stock market and rules governing the actions of parties. However, I know that Naked Shorting is likely illegal and it seems that this has been happening with this merger between MMAT and Torchlight (TRCH). It's also unfair that so much shorting activity can be done secretively. There should be requirements for cooperations shorting to declare themselves. Fintel and Ortex data shows huge numbers of short shares. My brokerage (WeBull) has taken a very long time in providing the Preferred Stock Dividend.

I'm afraid these changes do not go nearly far enough. While additional and more timely information is certainly appreciated, I believe what we need is for all short sales to be reported similar to the availability of Level II data. That is, every short sale should have to be recorded and immediately posted with the loan terms, where the shares were loaned from, and through which market it was processed. I also believe that the identity of the fund or the broker should be disclosed.

Would you please stop acting like any of your new rules are going to do anything. New penalties, including jail time, need to be implemented. As of now you are being insulting and ignorant. The slap on the wrists continue=the crimes still continue. You are asking the very people breaking the laws to report to you that they are breaking the law, instead they file false report after false report, suppress price action, manipulate the press, this is RICO territory, and you know this. Do your jobs. I will be filing a complaint with the FBI.

I would like to see Finra do a daily count of all short positions in the markets by having all Industry Members report to Finra directly, specifically Dark Pool data. As retail traders as a collective have now become ever increasingly aware of the Synthetic shares which are traded in the dark pools to manipulate the price of a stock.

What good is regulation if there is no enforcement? For far too long, market makers and institutions have been playing the game with their own rules whilst stealing money from the American public. How can this possibly be a free market with the lack of transparency and open manipulation that occurs in the stock market every day for the past several decades? There are a number of things that need to be fixed or addressed in order for retail investors to have any semblance of faith in the U.S. stock market again. 1.

approve this!

Eliminate dark pools. Enforce margin calls. Don’t just fine. Send people to federal prison. Been way too many government officials that are supporting the rising oligarchy. Eliminate the blatant manipulation and let the market do what it is supposed to do.

Yes! Please make these changes for a more fair and visible market. Individual investors are at a disadvantage when this information is withheld. The market should not favor short sellers as it does now. Congratulations on moving to make the changes the market needs!

Hello, as a person who’s new to investing with only 6-7months experience I have seen clearly that the market for small time investors is unfair based on everything I have educated myself during my time investing. What one of the biggest issues I’ve seen is rules broken time and time again by institutions who receive fines that mean absolutely nothing and are paid with ease while the retail investor get nothing that would result in loss of their hard earned money.

I would like to see more transparency in the type of trading that is occurring. Such as inflow of orders and outflow from any and all market makers, instead of hiding the true number of trades (buys and sells). It is public knowledge that market makers, leverage payment for order flow and this should be made public if not removed completely to level the playing field. The odds are stacked against the average person and this video shows exactly that - www.youtube.com/watch?v=W90V_DyPJTs