FINRA: First off, thank you for accepting commentary on this matter. We need more transparent markets. In the crash of 2008 - I watched TV talking heads (ex hedge fund managers mind you) telling people to buy BEAR STEARNS among my days of going to school and working three jobs getting my FINANCE DEGREE between that time. It took me forever to get a foot in the door because the lack of transparency allowed greed to consume EVERYONE who was not BAILED OUT or BUILT or SCHEMED or WHATEVER their way to benefiting from the 'DIP' back then.

More in-depth information should be readily available, and the loop holes that exist be closed or at least monitored better. Regularly audit the reported positions to ensure the self reporting is accurate and fine (or penalize in a way that will actually deter the same actions in the future) entities that misreport. This would include going deep to ensure that no shorts are being hidden in long options contracts, or mislabeled as long positions. Require that exchanges report failures to deliver and naked shorts alongside covered shorts.

Hedge funds, corporations, and other institutions have information and resources far beyond what the retail investor can access. Not only are these entities over leveraged compared to retail, some use their advantages to break laws and/or tilt the market in their favor. Incorrect marking of a position as long when their short. Continuous fail to delivers because of naked shorting. Trading in dark pools to further hide and complicate things. Plainly, it takes institutions who are supposed regulate too long to do anything and the fines are often too small to be effective.

I believe more transparency is needed any the dark pools need to be more transparent as well. The fines and penalties need to be increased so that the crime wouldn't be worth the cost of the crime. You have people taking interest in the stock market just to get robbed due to manipulation and synthetic shares. You will find that more people can be made to use the market fairly and people could stil profit. Hedge funds and market makers have computers and programs at their expense to do trading for them which could cause rug pulls and pump and dumps.

Hey there! I humbly and gratefully thank you guys for opening the doors to the public to have a say. I'd like to express my fears regarding short selling and naked shorting and how it affects my family. The stock price of my shares (AMC) often makes no sense, I'm asking FINRA to dig into just what's going on with big short positions, is the price being manipulated, the shorts have not been covered, if they have it's well hidden within something I cannot see. Please just help us out, this is my families life and out future.

Make it simple: add unique, serialized identifiers on every share. Tracking illegal activity would be easy, and lead to greater transparency and enforcement of laws. There’s too much shady and illegal practice in the market as it is, and enforcement is a joke. Nobody in the retail sectors trusts the market or the current laws’ ability to regulate all the nonsense. Make each share unique. Increase trust. Make the market truly free and open, or it will crumble. The market only has value because the people agree that it does.

Fair market! Stop the naked shorts and stock fraud!

Here are some examples on how the system could be improved: 1. ⁠Reduce the reporting period to weekly (or preferably daily) from biweekly. 2. ⁠Require that exchanges report failures to deliver and naked shorts alongside covered shorts. 3. ⁠Reduce the holding period for reported days from 4 days to 2 or fewer. 4. ⁠Document and release the identities of funds that have open short positions and their sizes. This would operate similarly to the way longs and options are currently reported. 5.

I want a more transparent market for retail investors. Live accurate data that isn't 2-30 days delayed and partially reported. It is a distinct disadvantage that retail has when it only gets part of the picture. I also would like to see more regulations and stiffer penalties on naked short selling. The fines that are handed out for FTDs and naked short selling are a drop in the bucket to these big firms who likely profited much more than the fines cost them through their illegal market actions. I think these people need to see jail time.