I would think some retail investors would take offense to the way this article was written. In reality we are well educated well informed individuals that no longer believe we should just do things the way they have always been done. We invest in good companies thats only downfall is the market structure dark pools and market makers. Its not that we need to be educated, the agencys need to end the corruption. Unless you want to educate us on that

What types of effective educational interventions have the highest potential to influence the behavior of investors, particularly newer investors? What are the costs of implementing such interventions? A great way to influence newer investors is by informing younger generations via social media platforms. As a young adult, I know that most people (regardless of race or income status) from the age ranges 12-28 spend a majority of their time on social media platforms, particularly Tik Tok.

Since the stack market is meant to operate on the principals of supply a demand. I believe that synthetic share creation through naked short selling or naked options needs technical controls enacted to prevent. Policy controls appear to be largely ineffective give the number of cases for violations listed on SEC.GOV. Given we can buy and sell shares and options why isn’t there simply an exchange instrument that represents a borrowed shares that tracks share available to borrow and stops when the limit of outstanding shares is met.

Synthetic shares need to be penalized and/ or outlawed. Additionally, dark pool trading needs to be stopped. Brokerages that constantly short stocks should be required to reconcile at market value no later than 15 days following the first FTD prior to being allowed to trade openly on that stock.