FINRA is about as effective as a mall cop, police but have no teeth. Fines companies millions for crimes that made them billions. 3 generations have been short sold down the river. We would not have as many poor folks or homeless if the hedge funds didn't short companies to BK. Dark Pool trading has allowed hedge funds to short well past being a market maker. One hedge fund donates 70 million a year to politicians just to get laws in place for them to screw all who invest.

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.

Full transparency is what we need and no more honor system in regards to reporting. When it comes to practices that have the potential to upend the economic engine that runs our entire society, there should be no walls to hide behind. We are investors and we deserve to know what is happening to our investments.

Hello, I have no affiliations with professional investing, I just started getting into it last year at the height of the pandemic. With that said, there is an obvious disregard for being truthful about short selling due to recent events and am happy you re looking to retail investors to get their take. Either a daily or weekly report that is NOT self reported would be best.

Regarding Robinhood: Users setup a cash account/non margin -> Robinhood then reports it as a margin account on all account statements. This is for *all* Robinhood accounts regardless of age. Per Robinhood pg. 17 of their TOS: “If I have a margin account, Robinhood is permitted to borrow a dividend paying stock in the normal course of business and, as a result, in such situations instead of a dividend payment I may receive a cash in lieu payment...”

I understand the value of short selling. I understand it is a mechanism to root out unsavory characters that may be using subversive tactics to artificially prop up a stock/ security, however I do not understand why, in 2021 we as retail investors do not have access to the same information at the same time as institutional investors? how is that a free market? again its 2021 and we have internet from satellites orbiting the earth, yet it takes a month to get FTD numbers? How is it a free market where institutional investors do not have to disclose short positions or puts?

No individual or entity should be able to create naked shares to the tune of 200% of the float. Also THE T-35 for fail to deliver Needs to be reduced. To 2 days. Like all trades do. FIX THE RIGGED SYSTEM.

THE HEDGE FUNDS ACCOUNTABLIY REGARDING REPORTING FTD'S AND NAKED STOCKS IN SHORT POSITIONS.

Short selling has not gone beyond simply providing for market liquidity and has become a method to destroy shareholder value. New rules (or better enforcement) need to take place to prevent this from continuing. Start by forcing all brokers to default their clients' positions to "not lend." This will restrict the available shares. Additionally, mandate that all short positions transparent and list exactly who and when the shares where lent. It appears to day, given the massive level of FTDs, that naked shorting is happening, illegally, on a mass scale.