Shares should have a tracking number on them. Trading would be simplified and tracking fraud would be easy to find. Locates also need to be recorded as soon as they are put in use and or taken off the books when finished using...... IN A CENTRALIZED PLACE FOR ALL TO SEE.... As of right now. creating more float than available is a major problem. When the float of a company is held... The price should have skyrocketed through supply and demand. Because you think market makers are important for liquidity, you have now eliminated price discovery.

We need access to ALL data that funds and banks get access too. In the same time period they get it. If this is a “free market” then nobody gets an advantage. Currently big banks and funds get the advantage over retail traders of having access to data faster than retail traders. This needs to change. Any data relevant to short selling needs to be completely transparent.

I fully support any and all changes to the reporting procedure that create a more accurate picture of current shorting activity as well as any related naked / synthetic shares that may have 'inadvertently' found their way into the float numbers. As a shareholder I think regulatory agencies have favored the Market Makers for far too long and the powers given to these entities have been widely abused at the expense of retail traders like myself.

Hello my comment is really quite simple I’m a new investor trying to break the cycle of poverty in my family with that being said as little as I know i have seen the blatant manipulation and illegal actions by billionaire companies only be handed a fine for breaking the law and completely manipulating a system that should be for everyone not just the 1 percent who has molded the stock market to their own personal bank accounts.

I am new a new retail investor and came in with great confidence thinking that I was investing in a fail market only to find out that these hedge funds are allowed these fraudulent and predatory behaviors like dark pools, shorting and kick backs for payment order flow which is plain robbery and nothing has been done to stop this. Retail investor want for best execution which is best available price at that time. We are requesting for exchanges to be transparent and lit! We are tired of being preyed on and robbed blind by these huge institutions.

We must end dark pool trading. HFT's are using these dark pools to hide real numbers from the exchange as well as buying shares within dark pool to sell off en masse on the lit exchange (NYSE). While dark pools are legal and we understand it's real purpose of keeping large investor information off the market until their buy in has settled, it has turned into a way to disguise corruption of massive levels.

While putting out notices is a (small) step in the right direction, the punishment needs to fit the crime. The current penalties for the majority of already fraudulent, illegal or criminal market activities are fines which represent a minute fraction of the profit gained by perpetuating them. As such, any enforcement (on the rare occasions enforcement actions are even taken) simply represents the "cost of doing business" for the institutions and organizations committing the offences.

Finra should be monitoring short sellers and hedge funds more closely and more frequently and should be disclosing short positions on at least a t+3 basis including dark pool transactions. Also finra should mandate much more transparency in the market including but not limited to taking away the ability of hedge funds to hide short positions by not accurately disclosing their positions in reports.

All shares should have an identifying number and should not be able to lend out and sell and all shorts need to be closed and all shares returned to their owner hedge funds have been cheating the retail for too long make them buy back every share they have shorted!!!

This system is being absolutely abused by short sellers and transparency is not only needed but should have already been implemented. Everyone should have access to the same data, THAT is a fair and just market. Right now the market , AMC, GME , in particular are being manipulated through the use of ETFs and FTD to stall the process of covering shorts like they should. The consequence of these actions should not be a small fine , but 100% of the cost they would have lost had they covered.