FINRA should immediately move to require daily short interest reports. More and better information will allow for better price discovery, which is the whole point of markets. FINRA should also consider making rules that punish those who commit FTDs (Failure to Deliver). Market Makers should have their naked short selling exemptions removed or severely limited. Finally, FINRA should move to require real time settlement, or T+0. The current settlement period of 2 days has been shown to increase risk for both brokers and the DTCC.

This is absolutely Illegal and they have been doing it for years. Please make the Free Market "Free" again and give everyone a fair chance.

I work very hard every single day to get extra money to invest into stock market. Why in the world should the market lean towards the rich [REDACTED] that rob us everyday. They should be in jail darkpools gone I'll pay for my orders again. Naked shorts need to be forced close RIGHT NOW. DO YOUR JOB SEC

This is great and all along with all the new regulations by the SEC, DTCC, FINRA, etc. However, these regulations are toothless in nature and are either not enforced by regulators who look the other way or they impose a very minimal fine that does not affect the institutions violating the law. There are a set of rules for the retail investor then there is a set of rules for market makers and hedge funds.

I have lost faith in the “fair and free market” these past few years have opened my eyes to see the cards are stacked against the average American. Huge funds are market makers which have them looking out for their own best interest. If they do get penalized the fines are nothing compared to the money they make cheating the system. I want transparency and just penalties for those who break the law.

Transparency, Equality, Fairness, Expediency, and RULE enforcement All of these qualities MUST exist in a FAIR and OPEN marketplace.

In regards to notice 21-19, I feel any and all available information regarding short interest and shares affected be open and publicly available information, ideally on a daily basis. We have the means to update this information in a real time way and thus should do so for all shareholders. The stock market has a lot of untrusting investors currently due to the way hedge funds have handled their positions w/ so called "meme" stocks.

All short positions should be reported including synthetics (why does that even exist). Every share should have a unique identifier that can’t be lent out multiple times (like we used to have with physical paper). Maybe we could have a free capitalist economy if competition was allowed and the best companies perform the best. A company shouldn’t be shorted and driven to bankruptcy because someone has enough money to destroy it. Reporting all short positions would discourage this behavior.

Saw this comment in one of the previous comments so I decided to use the same verbiage. “ 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.

Every share should be tracked with unique identifier. Every share should be located and lent only once. Every order should be delivered T+2 or fails mean 10x cost penalty. Every short position should be updated publicly with FINRA daily. Shares should not be allowed to be purchased on a dark pool and then sold on the open exchange.