I don’t know a ton about finance or the stock market. I know less about options and derivatives (I did watch a PBS program about Brooksley Born once) and that is all I really knew on the matter. But I’m learning more every day and the more I learn the more I’m convinced that there is perhaps something rotten in the DTCC, SEC and FINRA… to name a few. It seems financial regulators refuse to do their job – and that job in my not so humble opinion is: To regulate in a manner that keeps the financial investing arena fair and equitable.

AMC has magically come off of the threshold list. A real time example of no transparency is the fact that there are many different speculations as to how that happens after being on it for 10 days with no price movement. (The bigger short laddering happened on Thursday and AMC was on the list on Friday still). It wasn't until late Friday it became apparent that it had been taken off. Is there a reason we don't know which funds sold and which funds took on the FTDs if it was simply transferred?

As an individual investor I believe the regulations are not strong enough for big institutions to care. I wish for more details in public reports, more frequent reporting in general but mostly more frequent, even daily, public reports of short/put positions. I think that the current reporting cycle makes it easy for big institutions to "cover up" illegal positions. Also I believe higher fines for reporting wrong data or delaying the report would be adequate since it fools individual investors.

PUBLIC INFORMATION ON SHORTING, DETAILED AND BROADCASTED TO THE PUBLIC DAILY!! I HAVE RIGHTS TO KNOW WHATS GOING ON WITH MONEY INVESTED AND SO DO 4.1 MILLION PEOPLE..

There are lots of rules. Few are enforced. There are lots of fines, but none that actually deter illegal market practices. Enforce and fine accordingly with imprisonment and insolvency. No more illegal manipulation thru dark pools, no more illegal shorts and fraudulent shares, no more hiding short positions, no more kicking ftds down the road.

Hello, I wholeheartedly support FINRA's step toward a vastly more transparent system. FINRA requests comment on whether FINRA should publish on the FINRA website short interest data for all equity securities (listed and unlisted). • Yes, absolutely all short interest data should be published. FINRA requests comment on whether the potential short interest enhancements discussed above would be equally beneficial for both OTC equity securities and exchange-listed equity securities.

Since so many naked shorts are linked with FTDs, why don't you enforce the current rules regarding FTDs? Hedgefunds and Market Makers are currently "kicking the can" down the road and hiding Naked Shorts. I have seen estimations of FTDs that total into the $TRILLIONS of dollars and FINRA & the SEC are going to be complicit in the coming recession/depression caused by unfettered naked short sales and the blatant lack of enforcement of the rules regarding same. Why is the EU ahead of the curve on this and in the same thought, why is the U.S. not?

2008 Ape so strap in. There isn't enough space to cover everything so let me summarize: For every crime someone, say, making more or less than $200k in the market, be it collusion, insider trading, fraud, or what have you, committed and was jailed for, is evenly handed UP to those making more than $1mil to $2 BILLION more or less in the market.

What is going on in the market today with short selling is absolute market manipulation. How are traders allowed to operate on dark poles? How are they able to short shares that not only do they not home, but often times don’t even exist? The market needs to be a level playing field for both institutional traders and retail traders alike. The SEC Needs to take action against illegal activity!

Creating synthetic shares to create “liquidity” is a major concern within a free market in that it no longer allows a free market to operate, for it creates fraud. Liquidity is a natural component of the market that correctly occurs at the right price and is needed to find the securities price. When there is no liquidity, the price must go UP until a seller is willing to seek and create that liquidity, same with the sell side. I have NEVER heard of a time when synthetic shares are introduced to help somebody sell a security... why?