Shutdown the dark pools and force everyone to settle and not be able to FTD

In a fair and open market there should be transparency and a level playing field for all investors; be they retail or institutional. The # of shares shorted should be available IN REAL TIME throughout the trading day. Dark pool trading must be eliminated. We can clearly see that large institutions are buying massive quantities of AMC stock (for example) on the dark pool and then flooding the public exchange with shares (via selling, short-selling and short laddering) in order to MANIPULATE THE PRICE DOWN.

I am sick & tired of large hedge funds such as Citadel performing coordinated ladder attacks against GME & AMC, as well as others. Those two charts frequently pattern in lock step with each other. Investors know, as I assume FINRA & SEC does as well, that naked shorting is taking place on a grand scale. To make matters worse, the bulk of the short sales, particularly on those two stocks, get run thru on "lit" exchanges while buy order are routed to dark pools. Shorts are also hidden using married options to create synthetic shares. How is this practice legal or ethical.

Make naked shorts illegal. Make Dark Pools illegal. The corruption of the US finance sector is so perverse that it has drawn attention on a global scale. Get your [REDACTED] together.

Hey. I’m a retail investor and I beg and plead you to put a rush on dark pool buying and a more transparent stock market on short sales and naked shorts. As a retail investor I’ve poured about one hundred thousand dollars in the market and it seems we have been shorted on GameStop, chargepoint and it’s no secret of AMC. As retail investors we want to continue to put money in the market but I can assure you with the platforms I’ve encountered a lot of retail investors are over it. If we don’t see transparency and fairness in it we will as a majority no longer.

Trading should be done in the light. The markets need transparency. There is so much manipulation in the darkness that confidence in the market suffers. Penalties should be a deterrent rather than just a cost of doing business.

Daily short reporting. Also Eliiminate this T+2 reporting. It allows naked short in the days between. Fines are equivalent to 100% of profits taken, if they cannot prove the profits then 100% of the revenue of the trade. Pantry fines are essentially green lights for million of dollars of profit for there illegal activities

I’ll keep it short (no pun intended) and simple: as a retail investor, all I am asking for is a fair, level playing field. Currently, we are not getting that. Please adjust and enforce the rules so all retail investors receive the same timely information and opportunity as the Hedge Funds. Thank you!

Daily reporting of new short positions. Complete transparency of companies entering short positions (similar to the way long positions are reported).