In regards for comments on 21-19 regarding short positions, here are my thoughts. * Every share should be tracked with unique identifier and should have the ability to be marked as lent out, unassigned/free, owned-lendable, or owned-not-lendable and be registered with a single central database to prevent duplication/ falsification of data. The ability to mark a share as owned-not-lendable shall only be set by the entity owning the shares and not by market makers and shall only be removed upon that share being sold or changed by the share owner.

I approve of these proposals. Please stop naked short selling and increase transparency in the market. Also, eliminate dark pools

Shares need to have a traceable ID number, and shares that are shorted need to report that ID. I don't know how naked shorts get created by i do know that a stock like AMC shouldn't be shorting multi-millions of shares per day for months and months but never change SI% more than a few percent. There was one day this week there were literally 50 million shorts sold, 10% of the entire float, and SI% WENT DOWN? That's literally impossible. So prevent that. Do more than wait for the SEC to distribute fines. Naked shorting needs to be made physically impossible.

All short positions, including naked short positions created as part of bona fide market making activities, should be created on a lit exchange and reported in their entirety. The term "bona fide market making activity" should be defined by the regulator very specifically. The purpose of creating a naked short position in market making is to give an IOU for that share, and then to IMMEDIATELY search for and secure a real share to deliver to the buyer who paid the market maker for it, believing in good faith that they now hold in their account what they gave money for.

To Whom it May Concern, In a fair and open market there should be transparency and a level playing field for all investors. Right now, there is a massive deficit in access to information, trade speed, preferential terms and types of trades, and pay-to-play investing that heavily favors institutional investors over retail investors. Additionally, institutional investors engage in relationship-based, illegal, or near-illegal activity on a daily basis that give them an outsized influence on the market.

Help to do something about the corruption going on at Citadel and the obvious market manipulation. You are a part of the problem, if you are not a part of the solution.

I think this whole world is based on lies , corruption and theft. This event with the stockmarket os just increasing our conviction that nobody cares for you, everything in this world is evil. This will hurt generations on the long term. People won t trust any institutions, not even their family at one point. Justice is blind!

Dark Pools are called that because they remove the transparency of the trade. This is an open market so there shouldn’t market activity that’s suddenly invisible to the rest of market traders. There should be full transparency about shares being bought and sold at market prices. For shares that are shorted and subsequently misreported the financial fines should be proportionate to the real value of the shares. Every misrepresent of a short sale will increase the proportion of the true value and could even exceed the profits of the sale if enough violations have occurred.

Hedge funds should not have as much power as they do to control the markets there is absolutely nothing free and fair about the markets today and the sec need to do something about this to we need to start seeing jail time not theas fines that are chump change to the hedge funds its astonishing what they are allowed to get away with

"Synthetic Short Positions: In addition, FINRA is considering requiring firms to reflect synthetic short positions in short interest reports. For example, enhanced short interest reporting could include synthetic short positions achieved through the sale of a call option and purchase of a put option (where the options have the same strike price and expiration month) or through other strategies.