The sale of a call option and purchase of a put option with the same expiration date and strike price provides equivalent exposure to the price of a stock as a short sale. Despite this equivalence, this synthetic position does not currently create a short position that would be reportable under the current version of Rule 4560. The extent of use of this and other types of synthetic short positions is unknown.

Thank you for considering this and taking a step towards transparency in the stock market and our cracking financial system

Myself and countless other retail investors believe it is long overdue to implement the changes currently being considered. We believe a market can only be truly free if it is also free from manipulation. Increasing the transparency of short positions and ensuring access to accurate data is integral for a free market. Thank you for giving us a moment to speak our minds on an issue that we believe has been ignored for far too long.

Dear Finra, I request you guys to make short selling data more transparent and readily and daily available to the public. Thank you, Jessica Krohn

the question shouldn't be about updates on the subject, but why naked shorts arnt felonious to begin with! so why are naked shorts a thing is my comment.

The market has no transparency. Everyone was eager to let the "dumb" retail investors in but they stand no chance against hedge funds who operate illegally or on legally ambiguous ground. A lot of the laws made to protect them are not enforced. I would suggest no more dark pools, enforce FTDs quickly, and actually enforce SSR. The market is becoming a joke and no one will believe in it anymore soon enough if things don't change. Please help straighten this corruption out...

I just have one question: are you done yet?

What I have witnessed over the past year or so that is going on with stock $GME and $AMC is on a whole different scale. I was new to trading until I got involved signing up with RobinHood earlier in 2020. During that time I wanted to buy in to $GME and was blocked from doing so "for my own protection." essentially missing out on hundreds of dollars or more. I have seen unknown entities raise the price of a stock so that their options are either in the money or out of the money when ever they see fit. Buying and selling back and forth so fast that THEY set the price of the stock.

I would like to see the stock markets overhauled with a crypto blockchain style solution. Every share can then be tracked and identified with a unique token per coin. This could be created with specific user definable fields such as "shortable" where a user can specify whether or not his/her shares can be shorted. This could also enable a field to increment each time a share is shorted and set a max number of times a share can be lent out. This would add additional accountability.

Greetings, Not sure why FINRA has not come out with a report in the last three quarters, but the information it provides is completely valid and incredibly important to me as an individual investor. Also, I wish their was some working enforcement in place to discourage naked short selling and the unethical trade practices being used to manipulate a stocks true value.