I’m a 35 year old freelancer. I think on average I work 80+ hours a week to make a comfortable middle class income. I don’t resent anyone for it. Like many others, I took an interest in investments more than ever throughout covid and I truly believed I had an equal opportunity to succeed or fail in the market. Facts are facts- I don’t have an equal opportunity whatsoever. What is the point of FINRA or the SEC if we can watch a couple companies print millions of fake shares in order to make our investments worth less? We literally watched it live.

Its a start and a move in the correct direction. I support the implementation of this providing it is all publicly reported at the same time industry gets the data. However, it doesn't go far enough to deal with the years long joke that is FINRA "playing a critical role in ensuring the integrity of America’s financial system"... maybe the cronyism can stop for all of 2 minutes and some common [REDACTED] sense take place.

FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective reporting, they also leave significant specific gaps that could compromise the entirety of 21-19's purpose.

The FINRA 21-19 is a long waited change in the stock market. The integrity of the US stuck market has been tarnished. So much in fact that is teders on the edge of collapse. This is partially caused by the risks surrounding short interest reporting under the regulation of FINRA. Even though FINRA 21-19 focusses on a broader spectrum of ineffective reporting, the certain gaps in the 21-19 could make it's goals unreachable.

Improving the amount, quality, and timeliness of publicly available data from financial institutions and markets is absolutely crucial to providing a free and fair market. I support any and all changes that would enable such improvements. There is no legitimate reason for so much of the financial reporting to be, at best, hidden from public view…and be, at worst, outdated to the point of irrelevance and/or otherwise unreliable.

FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. A free and fair market is a strength of the US and it is obvious the integrity of those markets has been strained this last year. Part of that is due to FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. Even with some of the proposed changes in 21-19, there are still some gaps that do not account for synthetic shares that should be addressed as well. There were specific securities that have had their entire float traded multiple times over this year. How?

Confidence and faith in the US stock market is decaying rapidly. I'm the poster child for this decay. Up until this year, I really wasn’t paying attention. I was under the mistaken impression that the market was fair for all participants. Over the past year, I’ve realized that this game is rigged, primarily through the essentially unregulated use of illegal synthetic (naked) shares by key market players. Illegal synthetic (naked) shorting allows the key market players to “play god” and bankrupt otherwise capable companies by diluting their shares with illegal naked shares.

FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective reporting, they also leave significant specific gaps that could compromise the entirety of 21-19's purpose.

FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective reporting, they also leave significant specific gaps that could compromise the entirety of 21-19's purpose.

FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective reporting, they also leave significant specific gaps that could compromise the entirety of 21-19's purpose.