If I stole from a store I would end up in jail. But when the hedge funds does it. It’s creating a market. Double standard. They are stealing from the American people’s wallets. The same ones that pay for you to secure the exchanges. Which it is not being done. This makes me lose faith In the American stock system if all we are gonna do is lose our money to fake stocks and dark pools. I can’t believe this is being allowed when hundreds of people are complaining and showing proof of the stock market being manipulated. Now, imagine the rest of the world watching. Because they are.

Dark Pools exist for large institutional orders. Use for any other purpose should be illegal. Naked shorting must be prosecuted.

Yes to all. The more transparent, the better. The sooner, the better. Reporting should be on a daily basis, regardless of cost, and I feel that these practices should apply to ALL firms, member or otherwise. This needs to be an across the board regulatory process. The application of these changes, based on membership, will certainly be a cause of competitive discrepancies and will eventually result in new strategies/collusion among member firms and non member firms to circumvent these changes.

Stop allowing naked shorting that’s NOT REPORTED and stop allowing a short position to be pushed out further using more options and avoiding fail to delivers ALL WHILE NOT BEING REPORTED. No one should be able able to short a stock over 100% of the float and yet when it happens everyone looks the other way. So why should they stop? Slapping on the wrist with a small multi million dollar fine while allowing Billions to be made illegally does not work.

Short interest should not be self reported. Needs to be transparent and reported daily. FTD's should cause HEAVY fines. I mean, HEAVY. Maybe 50% of annual profit of a company. Naked shorts need to be investigated, openly disclosed to the public and result in heavy monetary penalties, as well as temporary ban from trading a particular security (maybe 30 or 90 days ban). High frequency trading should be abolished. Publicly traded companies are forced to comply with so much transparency while market makers are getting away with collusion, manipulation and flat out financial treason.

More regulatory rules need to bet set for for hedgge funds creating synthetic shares. They borrow shares that don't exist then have to cover them (FTD) after a certain amount of time. Time should shortened to 5 days and there should be absolutely no way of the Hedge funds getting out of it once 5 days has been reached. The rules need changing!

This rule needs to be in place to set the short sellers straight and bring to light their positions.

There needs to be more transparency with short selling. Any large institutions or hedge funds should be required to report short interest weekly if not daily. There shouldn't be an incentive for investors to short others to hope for them to go bankrupt. Investors who get premiums for the short shares to be borrowed should be taxed a higher rate for that premium. I can go on and on but ultimately I'm asking for more transparency with short selling.

As an international investor, I would like to see the following changes: 1. All short reporting (naked or otherwise) should be reported on a daily basis. 2. If a particular entity shorts a stock more than 5% it should be reported just like long positions. 2. Shorting a stock above 30-40% should not be allowed due to share dilution it causes.

Hello FINRA, I saw you are looking for comments on 21-19, regarding short positions. As I see it, the current US market is full of fraud, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit through their complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation through naked short selling by large hedge funds like Citadel and Susquehana being allowed to happen with impunity. The SEC and FINRA have known about this illegal counterfeiting practice for many years, with nothing being done to rectify the illegality of the market conditions. Naked shorting is illegal.