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Jonas Lionman Comment On Regulatory Notice 21-19

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to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy.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.

Anonymous-NB Comment On Regulatory Notice 21-19

The confidence in the US market is waning and will collapse in time. For too long FINRA's out-dated short interest reporting policy has allowed malicious activities to continue with little to no oversight in the form of abusive and extraordinary over-leveraging of short positions. Many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the short interest ineffective reporting, yet, they also leave significant holes that compromise the entirety of 21-19's purpose, almost as if they were left this way.

Robert W. Massey Comment On Regulatory Notice 21-19

If there was more transparency into short seller positions paired with the proposed enhanced reporting practices it could encourage a more fair market for all investors, not just those largest participants. When attempting to do research into short positions into some companies I had a long position in, the information was so sparse, and vague to say the least, you could not accurately assess the effect it was having on price discovery. We need short sellers need to be more closely monitored to have a fair and balanced market we can have confidence in.

Russell Gene Comment On Regulatory Notice 21-19

Retail investors are losing faith in the market. I urge you to take action to regularly disclose all short positions, whether genuine or synthetic (through married options, for example) on a weekly basis. This will allow individual investors to make more informed decisions about which companies they should invest their money in and will resolve the question of whether bad actors are using illegal "naked" short sales to manipulate security prices.

Anonymous-P Comment On Regulatory Notice 21-19

While short sales can be an important market mechanic to send signals to protect investors from corrupt or inept corporate leadership, hidden short sales and hidden synthetic short sales work against a free and fair marketplace. If institutional and "big money" investors detect reasons to believe that the future success of a company is unlikely, hiding their short positions at best circumvents the reasoning for short sales in a free and fair market, and at worst encourages bad actors to commit price manipulation at the expense of individual retail investors.

Robert Curtis-Johnson Comment On Regulatory Notice 21-19

To whom it may concern: I have grave concerns that the goals of the 21-19 rule change have too many loopholes and will not meet the stated goals of the effort. In fact, FINRA's minimal efforts at preventing ongoing FTD violations and options and swaps manipulation that circumvents REG SHO and T+2 requirements has led me to believe that FINRA is unable to be trusted as a Self-regulating Organization, and I will be informing my Congressional delegates of that opinion and strongly urging a return to direct government oversight.

Devin Blankenship Comment On Regulatory Notice 21-19

There needs to be a far stronger watch on naked short selling that is clearly a major issue in the current market. Investors should have full transparency to what's going on within the markets they invest their money in. The entire world has their eyes on the US Financial system at the moment. The result of the lack of oversight and control has put extreme distrust in the American financial system. The actions of major key players such as Citadel, Point 72, and many others involved in these aggressive and harmful trading tactics are a massive embarrassment to the United States.