This market should be transparent. Reporting should be daily minimum... ftd's should be delivered... naked shorts(illegal) should be covered..fake shares can't be tolerated.... jail must be the penalty...... price manipulation should not even be possible let alone tolerated. All shares should be real shares.

Finra 21-19 is crucial to the integrity of the US stock market. Transparency and equal access to data is essential. The current imbalance in reporting and reporting requirements is severely crippling. The unlimited risk of naked short selling should not be allowed in our country. Failure to deliver data and short interest should be reported daily. Monetary and legal recourse are the only way to disincentive bad actors. The alternative is loss of faith in our financial market. The next generation of investors will find other mediums unless the course is corrected.

Retail investors do not typically have much to say during these critical junctures in financial history, but given the recent tumultuous events of the last year, and the potential systematic failures that can be eliminated by 21-19, I felt the need to lend my voice to the effort. Regardless of the viability of short selling as a legitimate investment strategy, the inefficacies introduced by short sale activities reporting have, on numerous occasions, created opportunities for rampant abuse by short sellers.

FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective reporting, they also leave significant specific gaps that could compromise the entirety of 21-19's purpose.

FINRA 21-19 represents a ground shaking step towards improving the transparency and ultimately the freedom of the United States' market. Up until now, FINRA's archaic short interest reporting standards have facilitated exploitative and irresponsible market practices that threaten both free competition and the stability of the market.

It is unbelievable that such obvious corruption is not punished. Are our markets complete ponzi schemes? Haven't we learned this lesson already? It must be fixed. What will I tell my children? An example must be made!

I am writing as a humble retail investor. Recent events and research have demonstrated that the entire securities market is built around big players taking money directly from retail investors and legitimate corporations who have zero recourse. The current system for reporting short sales is laughably ineffective. It is completely obscured from retail traders, intentionally preventing free trade based on equal knowledge. Naked short sellers are able to collude to drive down the price of a stock with a limitless supply of fraudulent shares.

Short selling and rehypothecation has been used to the detriment of retail investors and is threatening to destroy the entire market structure if left unchecked. Stricter reporting of positions, including naked shorts should be happening already. Brokerage firms, market makers, and other financial institutions were never meant to have as much control over the financial markets as they currently hold.