please stop or limit shorting of stocks. the average workers only retirement is in their 401k. the rules behind shorting stocks needs to be changed. they kill the average investor that is relying on this for their retirement.

I've not seen any regulation on Dark Pools. This needs to be addressed and acted upon as dark pools allow for hedge funds/shorts to manipulate market price by routing stock buys in them. My vote is to outlaw and remove dark pools entirely. I know it's supposed to be used for huge exchanges without affecting the market, but at this point, it's more and more being used for illegal behaviors and doing more harm than good.

Skip to main content For updates and guidance Hello FINRA, I saw you are looking for comments on 21-19, regarding short positions. As I see it, the current US market is full of nothing but fraud, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit through their complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation through naked short selling by large hedgefunds like Citadel and Susquehana being allowed to happen with impunity.

We need to update amc short interest and reporting

Any new rules to regulating shorts would be very welcome as a retail investor. As far as I’m concerned, these are the biggest problem in enforcing REG SHO and regulation of the shorting market is the T2 settlement period which obscures net positions for the average investor. And the other is the blurred line of market makers and hedgefunds. Hedgefunds can easily parade themselves as “bona fide” market makers to skirt Threshold list settlement, and legally issue naked shorts.

Shorting is common practice within the securities market and usually helps balance prices of securities relative to the value of the security & the speed at which they've grown. There is nothing wrong with shorting, however there is a huge problem when certain stocks and securities have over 100 percent of outstanding shares shorted. This is mathematically impossible with the only conclusion to this occurrence leading to more shares being borrowed than the entire amount of outstanding shares. This is where we need changes.

To whom it may concern, I would like to voice my concerns regarding the following: Naked short selling High frequency trading algorithms Payment for order flow Dark pools Over the course of 2021, meme stocks have made quite a splash in financial markets and exposed what would constitute fraud for the average person, but turns into "savvy investing" for financial institutions. The government has allowed the circumstances which caused the 2008 crash to reinsert themselves in our financial markets.

The cat's out of the bag; retail investors now see and know that hedge funds and big business, in general, are taking advantage of the general public. Excessive and indefinite short-selling to drive stock prices down (and some companies out of business), as well as trading away from major exchanges that retail investors cannot interact with is destroying our faith in the system.

I urge FINRA to put in place daily short percentage update requirements and reporting. I believe this will strengthen our marketplace and help our great American businesses fight manipulative overleveraged shorting. I also believe Failure to Delivers should get reported as often as possible and should be investigated quickly and effectively. Thanks for your time and consideration.

Investigate Citadel!