For a mechanism that is designed to drop the price, why is is shorting permitted whilst the price is already dropping? This does not feel like a mechanism for price discovery, rather a way to force the price down, triggering stop losses from people trying to manage risk. If someone truly believes that the price will drop, let them short during the uptick only. Let there be a central database recording shares sold short, to avoid rehypothication and to better identify manipulative practices. Set a limit on how much a stock can be sold short.

I would like to see the following metric: total # of all short positions open by any company / # shares issued by company. This includes activity in dark pools. This must be reported hourly. This is the only way to ensure naked shorting is not occuring.

Cash account investor here. Never touched and option or margin. Recently during the merger between TRCH and MMAT, "somehow" my longs were charged with HTB interest. With how my knowledge of CUSIP works, my longs should have never been labeled as short. With the crazy time it took to finalize the merger, DTC holding back (buying time?) Preferred Shares, HTB interest on longs that should have never been labeled as such, I would believe this requires an investigation of the shorts process.

we have lost faith in the markets , Transparency is very important . Please help us . short sellers are ruling the markets and have full control over it .

I believe short interest should be more limited to 15% max 10 business day holds but then have to cover, I personally think its wrong to short a stock when the company is doing well on the books but on the market they are being pummeled to the point of needing an RS and then they are shorted even more to the point of needing another rs. This is where I believe it becomes criminal, Shorts need tighter restrictions.

I am ashamed at how blatantly our markets are built to generate wealth for a select few at the expense of main st businesses and people. It is an embarrassment that over 100% of a company could be sold short. It is an embarrassment that wall st firms can sell millions of shares short, but mark them long and continue to do business with a laughable fine. It is honestly hard to take FIRNA seriously. If an organization can make a billion dollars breaking a rule and pay a term thousand dollar fine, they will continue doing that forever.

I would like to see more transparency with regards to shorts and the dark pool. I would also like to see penalties that are more aligned with the amount of money stolen or misused by hedge funds and others that break the law.

I request more up to date and transparent short interest data.

Hi January 01/28/2021 There were pure Manipulation for share price for illegal short covering. I wanted to purchased $nok share with Cash account in the morning but they intentionally blocked my order so hedge funds can cover their illgeal short position... I no longer believe in our finnical system. He is live video with proof... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69QNPHNU5zc

We as retail investors need to know what is going on in the dark pool. Also, we need to know which institute has what short and the action they took can cause the short effect.