To Whom it May Concern: I believe institutions such as Citadel and Melvin need to stop manipulating the market by illegal tactics. Strict enforcement needs to take place when these companies violate the rules regarding synthetic shares and FTD's. Fines of 10k are merely a slap on the wrist for these companies. The amount of money that these companies have would be like a 1 cent fine in ratio to the retail investor. This doesn't seem fair. These companies are more than willing to just take the miniscule fine in order to continue engaging in their market manipulation practices.

The companies reporting short interest have been shown to not follow the rules and hide their short positions in various ways. There is no good reason that any information related to the financial system should be left up to self reporting. All information should be submitted and stored automatically as transactions are carried out and it should all be of public record. This record should be updated in real time and accessible on the web by any interested party at any time.

Good Morning, and thank you for allowing me to comment on the proposed changes to SI reporting. First and foremost in order to make an educated decision in my investments, i believe that SI should be reported DAILY. Also looking through the proposed changes, synthetic shorting reporting...I believe this is also illegal as creating a synthetic short position is akin to counterfeiting . How can an individual investor really know they have bought a "Real" share? This leads to the reporting of FTD's. Fail To Delivers should be illegal and immediately banned.

All reporting should be live and up to date always. Funds need to stop shorting companies into the ground. No trading of synthetic anything. It’s just being maliciously abused by market makers. No shorting in unregulated exchanges. I’m sure there’s many more, but it’s hard to keep track of all the felonious behavior. Retail traders are being robbed of their money all over the market by things not just short related. It’s exhausting and beyond disappointing. Please work quickly to remedy some of these loopholes and crimes.

I’m a new investor learning every day. I do believe the transparency is key anything here is not good. I believe that you guys know what is very good for the company for the stocks and for us so do the right thing thank you

For a mechanism that is designed to drop the price, why is is shorting permitted whilst the price is already dropping? This does not feel like a mechanism for price discovery, rather a way to force the price down, triggering stop losses from people trying to manage risk. If someone truly believes that the price will drop, let them short during the uptick only. Let there be a central database recording shares sold short, to avoid rehypothication and to better identify manipulative practices. Set a limit on how much a stock can be sold short.

I would like to see the following metric: total # of all short positions open by any company / # shares issued by company. This includes activity in dark pools. This must be reported hourly. This is the only way to ensure naked shorting is not occuring.

Cash account investor here. Never touched and option or margin. Recently during the merger between TRCH and MMAT, "somehow" my longs were charged with HTB interest. With how my knowledge of CUSIP works, my longs should have never been labeled as short. With the crazy time it took to finalize the merger, DTC holding back (buying time?) Preferred Shares, HTB interest on longs that should have never been labeled as such, I would believe this requires an investigation of the shorts process.

we have lost faith in the markets , Transparency is very important . Please help us . short sellers are ruling the markets and have full control over it .

I believe short interest should be more limited to 15% max 10 business day holds but then have to cover, I personally think its wrong to short a stock when the company is doing well on the books but on the market they are being pummeled to the point of needing an RS and then they are shorted even more to the point of needing another rs. This is where I believe it becomes criminal, Shorts need tighter restrictions.