Market makers should not be allowed to have positions in the market, especially short! Anyone could see why this is a major conflict of interest. They have the tools and access to enough money to manipulate a stock price in their favor. The lack of transparency when it comes to shorting activity/positions by market makers and hedgefunds is hurting retail trader confidence as well! How is 50-60% daily darkpool trading on $AMC allowed when retail don’t have access to this trading method?

If short sellers can lower the price of a stock, they must be bound to honor the transaction. Through numerous holes in the system, short sellers are able, without serious legal or financial repercussions, to drag out settlement (apparently) indefinitely or avoid settlement altogether. Utilization of such settlement avoidance techniques is a violation of Federal law. That is, crimes -- a (RICO) pattern of crimes. Execution of many of the techniques requires knowing cooperation of brokers, market makers and others. Regulators are smart enough to know these techniques.

Citadel is aggressively manipulating the price of sever stocks, and improving short reporting will expose that. These changes SHOULD take effect.

It is commonly understood that for every transaction the terms of the exchange is known by both parties and executed faithfully to produce what we consider the stock market. Technology now allows for near instant transactions for market participants, therefore the due diligence of reporting that transaction to regulatory authorities should occur simultaneously with the transaction itself. This will promote accuracy and efficiency of reporting and compliance. T-0 transactions with instant updates for all market participants.

Short data needs to be reported every day. Playing field is not equal. Their is no FREE market at this current time and id be a fool to believe there ever was. Fines to these institutions is a joke as well. They need to be made an example of. Land of the free? Nope not us. Land of greed sure.

1. Illegal naked shorting needs to stop . 2. Should have mandatory, correct short interest reported daily . FTDS should be covered immediately when they are owed they shouldn’t become FTDS. Market manipulation needs to be stopped by hedge funds . An institution shouldnt be able to short any stock if they are a market maker . Conflict of interest . No more payment for order flow ! No more dark pool manipulation.

We should get fair reporting real time on the buys and sells as they are placed in the market. Brokers and market makers make billions every year by payment for order flow and parking orders. They spent millions to get faster fiber optic cables for those fractions of a second faster receiving of the data as Knowledge is and forever will be power. Why is there a t plus 2 or some reports only send twice a month when it would be simple to share this real time with investors. This would help close the massive gap of fairness in the market.

I think that the shorts should have to cover there positions after 7 days no matter what happens

We need to see more accurate short interest data I believe it’s not accurate and the fact that citadel can make the markets and invest in them and double dip and manipulate is unbeliveble.

In a fair and open market there should be transparency and a level playing field for all investors; be they retail or institutional. The # of shares shorted should be available IN REAL TIME throughout the trading day. Dark pool trading must be eliminated. We can clearly see that large institutions are buying massive quantities of AMC stock (for example) on the dark pool and then flooding the public exchange with shares (via selling, short-selling and short laddering) in order to MANIPULATE THE PRICE DOWN.