It is nearly impossible for retail investors to have any faith in financial institutions that both control and buy into the same market. How is PFOF still legal? HOW?! Pioneered by friend of the little guy BERNIE MADOFF. We are not asking for an advantage, we would just like a level playing field. What a concept. HELP US PLEASE.

The proposed amendment to FINRA 4560 is a laughable attempt at improving naked short selling internal control measures, actual regulatory action, or really any kind of further obligation on the part of the involved broker-dealers. There have been hundreds if not thousands of regulatory "actions" taken by FINRA related to short sale, and misreporting/misclassification of shorts. This filing appears to broaden the scope of required disclosures. period. end of filing. This does nothing to protect investors in a information landscape rife with inaccurate and unreliable information.

Self reporting of short interest needs to stop, that is like someone self-reporting what crimes they commit and not having a background check. Short interest needs to be reported immediately through automated means (mandatory monitoring software controlled by a regulatory agency) and made available to the public immediately within an hour. If the software stops it should automatically stop all trading from that entity and a detailed report of caused the stop made public.

Strong enforcement of illegal naked shorting. Penalties should be more than a slap on the wrist, or nothing at all. It's illegal, don't allow it. Any company caught naked short selling should be prohibited from trading on exchanges. Start out with a 1-week ban on all trading for that company for a first offense, and increase the time for each offense thereafter with a final penalty of being kicked off all exchanges. Three times and your out! Naked shorting is illegal. Have a zero-tolerance policy.

We as retail investors should have the ability to see the same materials the market makers and hedgefunds can see. It needs to be an open and fair market as it was designed to be. If there is excessive suspect activity we should also be allowed the i formation on that. Thankyou

As an investor I am very concerned about the potential for inadequate transparency in the market to leave room for conflict of interest in the way that my orders are processed. I believe that building a truly fair market, which does not provide structural advantages to leaders of the industry (in addition to the already countless tools unavailable to the average investor), is in the best interest of not only myself, but the future of our society. I also believe that absolute transparency, on its own, can bring us closer to a fair market than any form of regulatory enforcement.

I feel this message will go no where, but I am writing this email to just have a voice in what is going on with AMC Stock. I invested in AMC to let Hedge Fund know you can make money if a company decides to go Bankrupt, but when a company as GME, AMC go broke because of a Pandemic which affected the whole entire Businesses World. I feel it is poor judgement to force a company to go broke by shorting it, when it is trying to stay in Business.

I have been investing for a long time now and have seen many of the tricks the large companies use to turn large profits. One of the worst treatments I have witnessed, was the way the CMKX share holders were treated as their company was naked short sold into oblivion. It was later found out that there were millions of naked short transfers out there and when the cert pull happened there were some companies that went as far as to fabricate fraudulent stock certificates.

We all want fairness in the market. No more rules that protect big money from any culpability when taking advantage of access to market features that retail investors don’t have. Conflicts of interest such as market makers shorting stocks they hold the books for, t-2 settlement dates, 15 day short reports, and most importantly, darkpool order rerouting of retail investor buy orders must be regulated and enforced. They are nothing short of criminal, and these actions are done notoriously.

Please implement the following amendments: (1) modifications to its short interest reporting requirements (Rule 4560); (2) a new rule to require that participants of a registered clearing agency report to FINRA information on allocations to correspondent firms of fail-to-deliver positions; and (3) other potential enhancements related to short sale activity.