The lack transparency that Hedge funds offer is astonishing, it allows fraudulent trading of securities with impunity! Short

Dark pools should be illegal, not fair for the average investor. People are starting to lose faith in a rigged system that only helps the 1% . Synthetic shares should be illegal. Total shares of a company should be verified and synthetics should be removed , the system is rigged for the elites. Shorting should be reported on a daily basis. Crypto should be used as a replacement for a stock , so that the stock can not be manipulated or replicated and shorted. The people should determine the stock value and not some hedgefunds that control the economy.

I agree with the proposals as listed. I believe this would prevent or reduce the manipulation many believe the market is subject to at present. As such it would promote confidence within retail investors many of whom believe that institutional investors have made the market inherently unfair to them and as such retail may begin to disengage with investing. These proposals I believe would also protect the markets from undue risk caused by the practices of naked shorting, FTDs being hidden and close out dates being changed to allow the firm more time to deliver.

Accredited Investor status should be dismissed. Anyone should be given equal opportunity to invest their money as they see fit rather than the rich getting richer (accredited) and the poor staying poor (since they can’t invest in things if they don’t have a large sum of assets or make six figures). If you can gamble legally(anyone) than you should be allowed to buy assets. It’s the same thing…a risk. And as an adult, we should be able to assess our own risk, no matter how much or how little money we have or make.

You should create a public portal where people can ask their questions publicly and WEEKLY have the SEC chairman answer a bunch of them. The reason people are generally so angry with the SEC is because we never feel like they actually have the retail investor's best interests in mind. Communication is KEY to success and the more the SEC has open communication with who they represent, the more everyone will feel better.

Please investigate and better report short interest with etfs XTSLA, IJR,IWM . More transparency is needed with failure to delivers and dark pools. AMC and GME look like they are being heavily manipulated in every which way possible. Help end corruption and theft.

If the State doesn’t take responsibility when banks loose their money why should it be concerned with Crypto in the name of public interest . It appears that the only reason why State is trying to stifle crypto is because it wants to continue to enjoy its complete freedom of money printing and inflation manipulation.

Establish Regulations on Crypto with a new Standard (not old Howey Test) based on utility and on if they had used an ICO or not! Then once President has been established guidelines and legal actions can be taken. The legal issue taking up with XRP is not just! There is no set standard and to start legal action after 8 years is ridiculous. XRP Never had an ICO, they have all kinds of utility. Each owner of the coins have no illusions of owning stock in the company, This lawsuit is unjust and makes our governing body look horrible

A free market system is exactly what we need. When I say free market I mean the ability of the retail investor to make their own decisions based on their own personal risk/reward assessment. Retail investors are legal adults who are rational and responsible for their own actions. Retail investors are quite capable of using their own judgement to manage their money. Every responsible adult is responsible for doing their own research for every other decision in their lives whether financial or otherwise.

1) SEC regulations are very confusing and at times it appears as though there isn't an actual run book that staff use before concluding if something is a security or currency. Another area for improvement in this space is helping people form an appropriate approach, and lastly crack down on these exchanges. Some of them are dodgy [REDACTED]. 2) I did like Binanaces approach to educating their customers, you had to learn before certain areas were unlocked. Finra could create a digital syllabus with exchanges?