I appreciate the opportunity to submit comments on Short Interest Reporting. I am not against short selling, and as a retail investor I have made some very profitable trades over the years on the short side. However, I was always required to locate the shares, request to borrow and confirm they were received before I could enter the position. I am concerned that the current rules are not being followed by the institutional firms, and they are not being enforced by governing bodies. If the reporting requirements were more frequent I think this would help.

To Whom It May Concern, Regarding the Proprietary and Customer Account Categorization, I support specifying short interest held across proprietary accounts and customer accounts for each equity security as of the close of the reporting settlement data.

Please do something about the illegal shorts. Thank you

I believe all short interest data should be released daily. Explain to me why everyone of my long position buys are documented daily and can be used against me to short by those that don’t have to disclose. I also don’t believe dark pools eliminate a free and equitable economic opportunity for everyone.

Please make synthetic short interest reporting hourly or daily. Please make short interest reporting transparent. Current reporting is not fair to individual investors!

There needs to be transparency! A fair and regulated market for all! Thks

I believe it would be in the best interest of retail investors to obtain real time FTD numbers from the SEC, considering the SEC has access to that themselves and could release it on a daily broadcast. It shouldn't be too hard considering FTD's are a rarity in the stock market according to SHO filings and SEC announcements

Yes, please impose mandatory reporting on short sale positions in real time. The short sellers have real time data of the shorts sold, that information should be public and current. There is no free market without a transparent market.

Please enforce or change rules for short selling

I have held stock in both GME and AMC since January. I watched as the GME stock was manipulated by several Brokers when they all removed/limited retail investors ability to purchase stock but allowed selling. This resulted in a " Flash Crash" of GME price. Since then we have watched Companies use shorts/naked shorts to manipulate the price of both AMC and GME. There seems to be a disconnect between the numbers of these shorts being reported to regulatory agencies.