To Whom It May Concern, I believe FINRA themselves said it best in their proposal, "FINRA believes this information would assist FINRA in understanding the scope of market participants’ short sale activity, specifically regarding the use of less-traditional means of establishing short interest." My only question is why in the world has FINRA not required ALL short interest? Isn't the whole point of a Short Interest report to show how much Short Interest there is? Why in the world would you ever exclude all the Short Interest information unless it was for nefarious purposes?

Please implement and enforce with all due haste. Abusive short-selling is destroying faith in US markets. More reporting, oversight, and accountability are needed to ensure robust investment in the future.

While the proposed improved regulations / reporting are taking a step in the right direction there needs to be further reporting of data to the public made in as close to real time as possible. As the movement of retail traders being involved in managing their own investments continues to grow, the playing field should be as even as possible for all parties involved. If we are investing with a firm, we should be able to know the extent of their short position, if it is something that goes against our own investment strategies.

I believe in transparency. Major players in this market push and pull the price of a security to profit with derivatives or push and pull with derivatives to profit of a held security. In spite of the intentional charade to act oblivious and pretend it all was just simply speculation, larger players use brute force means as an investment strategy with arguably plausible deniability. I believe the solution to that is complete disclosure disseminated not only to the market but the market participants, especially those who might be unwilling or unknowing participants.