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Increased visibility into market activity. Retail investors cannot be kept at a disadvantage to institutional investors. It's not a fair market if we aren't playing the same game, with the same tools and the same information. Dark pool trading needs to be limited to specific use-cases if not removed entirely. No high-frequency trading. Short positions should be disclosed and those positions need to be closed out in a timely manner, no kicking the can down the road indefinitely.
As a retail investor, I believe that there should definitely be reporting on short interest positions. Please make this happen!
Reporting transparency in a timely manner for ALL to see is what should be. Big money has ALL of the advantages. There is nothing fair or free about this market as it currently exists.
As a small retail investor it is obvious that shorting has become a way to rig the game against the retail investor and against companies vying for survival. This practice of shorting and the illegal practice of naked short selling makes our financial system look like a stool with three legs…. Not very stable. If we don’t fix the glaring problems in this system where the scale is so clearly unbalance it will be a much bigger problem than if the problems were just fixed and the playing field leveled. Do what’s right for the entire market, The market is suppose to be fair.
Rule 1. All short sale shall be reported to finra by end of each settlement day. Rule 2. Finra shall make public report the day to day short sale by end of settlement day or the trading week. Rule 3. All unused loaned shares shall be reported to finra by end of settlement day. Rule 4. Finra shall make public the outstanding unused loaned share by end of settlement day of a trading week. Rule 5. All threshold securities sho regulation shall be reported daily with full accounting of fail to deliver end by end of settlement day. Rule 6.
My comments submissions are: 1. The purpose of this change is to improve transparency within the market to counter fraudulently or bad actors having the ability to circumvent reporting mechanisms for their own gain, and often the loss that retail investors suffer as a result when operating within the market. This premise should underpin how all comments are reviewed and revisions incorporated. 2.
