I believe a more transparent form and frequency of short position reporting would be very beneficial to the stock market and retail investors specifically based on increased trust in the institution as a whole.

I lost over $100,000. To stock symbol GTEH because of the tremendous amount of short selling mostly by some market maker called CDEL out of Chicago. The CEO of GTEH has grossly diluted the GTEH stock. Can you please research this and put an end to it on behalf of the 1000 s of GTEH Shareholders, we collectively have lost over 90% .

Reporting needs to be more than monthly, weekly at latest. It also needs to be changed so that it 100% accurately identifies short interest and delineates between real and synthetic borrowed shares for short interest. Fines should also be such that they accumulate to a point that a rule breaker will not be able to just choose to keep paying the fine and committing the crime.

Short positions should be required to report more regularly and the short interest of a stock should be known rather than estimated every other week.

I am a new retail investor but I have found quickly a strong sentiment of unfair trading practices and market manipulation by hedge funds that leaves retail traders at significant disadvantages. I appreciate the efforts on behalf of FINRA and the SEC to eliminate these events of malpractice by enforcing the rules that are currently in place, as well as, providing the public with more accurate and more up-to-date records of the short positions that these powerful hedge funds have taken.

Well, where should I start. I haven’t been trading long, approximately two years, but in that short time it’s become completely clear that every rule/restriction set in place benefits hedge funds and short traders. Dark pool is an absolute mind blowing joke. Shorts can just trade large order stocks back and forth, with no transparency, and drive the price downwards at any given time. That’s just the tip of the iceberg though. SSR is not enforced at all, and Hedge funds have basically no penalties for FTD’s.

The unbelievable amount of market manipulation is astonishing! It’s really laughable because the government allows blatant illegal practices unchecked until they’re required to cover. All information should be made public because ultimately it’ll strengthen the economy because people will consider it fair! It’s sad a company that’s trying to get off foot is constantly able to get beaten into bankrupt just because one person feels like it to make billions with no risk at all! They ftd all day but fines don’t matter after they accomplish their goal

More transparency with the whole process more detail on short positions

You need to increase fines for non-reporting of short positions. The current plan is not even comparable to a slap on the wrist for the large hedge funds. It would more than likely hurt them less to pay the fines than to actually report on their short positions. As for the frequency of reporting, daily with full transparency in all aspects of the market would be appreciated but impossible. Also figure out how to either stop naked shorting or at least a way to report on the amount of naked shorting that takes place.

The world will be a financially better place once Citadel and their evil spawn are forced into liquidation.