Have all short sales be reported to finra by end of each settlement day. Make public and report the day to day short sale by end of settlement day or the trading week. Have unused loaned shares reported to finra by end of settlement day. Make public the outstanding unused loaned share by end of settlement day of a trading week. Make all threshold securities regulation reported daily with full accounting of fail to deliver end by end of settlement day. Enforce FTD purchase upon noncompliance with 2 settlement days. TRANSPARENCY!!!

The punishment for cheating and stealing billions cannot be a small 10k fine. This is a joke. Prison time and forfeiture of all assets should be the penalty. buying in the dark pool and selling on the open market should be 100% illegal and short positions need to be reported daily just like buy positions.

I’m interested in seeing more transparency for the average retail investor. Short sellers are manipulating the stock market right in front of our eyes. Its not hidden, its right in front of our faces. Quite unfair and corrupt. I feel a big disadvantage as a retail investor because of how hard a short selling company can manipulate the price of a stock and have an effect on the actual price of the stock to drive it down and crash these good companies because their greed for money is that strong. Short ladder attacks for example are a big thing I would like for the SEC to look into.

It’s ok to short shares that you own. It’s never ok to naked short or create synthetic shares.

I would like to see more information and transparency in reporting of short sale positions. I am a retail investor and would like an even playing field with hedge funds. I understand that other markets have stopped the short share positions to stimulate the economy. Thank you for your time

I think fines should be raised. All short sales should be reported to you bu the end of each day and made public just like when you buy a share. Enforse FTD purchases upon noncompliance within 2 settlement days. I think it’s unfair that things are not more transparent. It’s our money our shares that are loaned out without permission. Please raise fines so they think twice before illegal things are done with a slap on the wrist. The fines now are not high enough. They have billions of dollars to throw away a day. Just my thoughts. Have a great day

Per your request for Regulatory Notice 21-19 regarding Short Positions, please find my comment below. The current requirements for short sale reporting, thorough as they may seem, are woefully inadequate in terms of depth, clarity and public transparency. I'd like to take the time to address what I see as issues that clearly and with immediate care must be addressed when considering short sales, market makers, hedge funds, and legal institutions tapped to enforce laws that clearly have no teeth in terms of punishment or enforcement.

Enforcement and transparency. There is no enforcement on the rules that are already in place. SSR is not enforced at all. T+0 settlement, ban payment for order flow, stop routing all our buys through dark pools (the dark pools are not being used as inteded), add real punishments for repeat offenders (jail time), force shorts to cover their synthetic shares.

I’m not educated nor do I speak/write English well. But the way the stock market works, it seem that the rich have a different rules while retail have very limited tools. Why are they allowed to short stocks without reporting? Why are they allowed to manipulate prices via dark pools? It’s like we are watching a game of football, betting which sides win, but retail only see 25% of the field while selected few have the entire field. We want changes. We want info that they have. We want the tools needed to compete and not be sheeps acting as food for the wolves to prey on. Thank you

I would like to see more transparency when it comes to short positions of institutions. Daily accurate reporting; no more hiding how big institutions move the stock market in their favor.