Fines smaller than the profits made by violators are called bribes. All regulatory bodies that impose minor fines are taking bribes. The fact that comments are being asked for when the public sentiment on naked short selling, FTDers, and obvious price manipulation is incredibly easy to find is just another slap in the face to retail traders.

There are five major suggestions I have: 1. All short interest data be updated daily; 2. No longer allowing the synthetic long loophole to short; 3. No longer allowing shorting in dark pools so the activity can be fully traceable; 4. If a firm FTD, for any reason, they are prohibited from shorting until they cover; and 5. Using blockchain to track every short order executed to ensure a complete and accurate ledger of short interest and who has shorted.

Reporting partial short interests does nothing but mask the trickery of hedgies. A good rule change for FINRA would be to report from ALL exchanges both lit and unlit. Get rid of T + 2. Provide exact real time interest charges. Hopefully the SEC would ban naked short covering with options or ban naked shorts entirely. Basically level the playing field between Wall Street and retailers. If we can’t do it or have the available info then no one should.

I am a new investor dating to Feb 2021. With limited experience and a lot of reading, I opened a cash account so I could open a ROTH IRA. With my limited time and knowledge, it didn’t take long for me, a somewhat technically experienced person that something wasn’t square on the other side of my trade. I do not comment here as to fake a persona of a trader but just the opposite… and if I can see something isn’t fair or right… imagine what is happening to those that have years of knowledge and trading experience

The only way to have a trust worthy financial market is through transparency and having a better understanding of what short positions exist and the data involved with them only seems the logical answer. Currently it’s a portion of the market that seems shrouded in mystery. That doesn’t make me want to invest; if anything it has made me shy away.

I would like to see the following changes: Require that firms include synthetic short positions On the FINRA website- Make available short interest data for all equity securities (listed and unlisted).

We need transparency in the market, the more reporting by institutions the better. Illegal naked shooting needs to be stopped.

More transparency is a good thing.

The fact that we have to comment to get you to do your job speaks volumes. The whole world sees how corrupt the US stock market is. All trust has been lost. It was extremely easy to see the fraud and corruption happening, yet the media and politicians acted like they had no idea what what was going on. Boomers don't understand how the internet works. The attacks and lies were pathetic and proved how dumb Wall Street really is. To blame Reddit for manipulation in order to hide massive fraud, manipulation, and corruption was the biggest joke we've ever witnessed.

In the interest of transparency and fairness to the market. I believe it is important to have regular and accurate information keeping and disclosure to encourage retail market participants into the market. Professional firms already have fast, accurate and bespoke trading software and information systems that provide them with a massive advantage in accurately determining price inefficiencies and facilitating price discovery. These tools which are not available to retail participants are expensive and discourage them from taking active ownership in their investment strategy.