Trading should be done in the light. The markets need transparency. There is so much manipulation in the darkness that confidence in the market suffers. Penalties should be a deterrent rather than just a cost of doing business.

Daily short reporting. Also Eliiminate this T+2 reporting. It allows naked short in the days between. Fines are equivalent to 100% of profits taken, if they cannot prove the profits then 100% of the revenue of the trade. Pantry fines are essentially green lights for million of dollars of profit for there illegal activities

I’ll keep it short (no pun intended) and simple: as a retail investor, all I am asking for is a fair, level playing field. Currently, we are not getting that. Please adjust and enforce the rules so all retail investors receive the same timely information and opportunity as the Hedge Funds. Thank you!

Daily reporting of new short positions. Complete transparency of companies entering short positions (similar to the way long positions are reported).

I guess my only comment would be; Why are you even asking for comments, instead put your energy into FIXING the problems (illegal activity) that you KNOW as well as we do exist, and are repeated daily. A blind man could see the manipulation that goes on and yet your organization has to as us "what the problem is". Come on! You're obviously in bed with "the problem"!

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.

The fines and ENFORCEMENT for naked shorting have to create enough pain to dissuade investors as a whole from performing them. Regulation must be enforced for ALL.

The rules around Failure to delivers (on short selling) for larger organizations (namely citadel securities and others), is giving them a way out to continue to drag down companies and squeeze out retail investors. The market does not function the way it should with the hand tipped to the market maker. The market maker is also the one funding the media outlets, may own assets in 'educational' platforms like Motley Fool, Seeking Alpha, etc.

Short interest and FTD anomalies need to be have the greatest level of transparency and strictest guidance available to the entire breadth of market participants. We should not a have a market system where by large powerful institutions can dominate trading with a flood of short sales for the purpose of extinguishing any particular company's stock and eventually forcing it in to bankruptcy.

There needs to be transparency in the market. Daily reporting of shorts. FTD’s need to be taken care of immediately. If you can short billions of dollars daily, you should be able to cover those shorts daily. Also there needs to be serious and real consequences like jail time, not a fine for these things. Oh and darkpools shouldn’t be legal