Please approve the new rules to tighten up short interest reporting requirements. There are too many loopholes that short traders use to hide and obfuscate their true short interest (eg hiding shorts in deep OTM put contracts) which puts retail traders at an information disadvantage, which is anathema to free market principles.

If want all information about short interest exposed for public to see Honestly we the Americans and rest of the world are tired...we want and need prooer regualtion of the stock market..everyday stock.is open we seeing manipulation . Everyday the retailer os always bag holder... You finra and sec need cut that bs of fines..that shit never works..we.want see pple go to jail...all this wealthy pple so financial Treason knowingly .if u giving me 70 million fine and made one billion..thats cost of doing business.. America claims to be capitalists and mantra shud be let the market decide..

Isn't naked shorting illegal? Isn't it the SEC and FINRA's job to investigate and enforce? Please do your job. There is a go fund me page soliciting funds to pay for an attorney to investigate GME and AMC naked shorting when taxpayer dollars are already being spent to fund the SEC. Do your job. Everyone is watching.

All reports should be consolidated for all markets in one location where it is easily accessible to all investors. FTDs should be reported daily and should be required to be cleared within a a T3 timeline without exception. Short positions and changes to those positions should be reported daily and that information should be made available to all investors no later than the next business day including synthetic shorts. Naked shorts should not be permitted under any circumstances. Leverage on short positions should be limited to no more then 2x.

Anything to improve accountability and transparency is most welcome.

The lack transparency that Hedge funds offer is astonishing, it allows fraudulent trading of securities with impunity! Short

Dark pools should be illegal, not fair for the average investor. People are starting to lose faith in a rigged system that only helps the 1% . Synthetic shares should be illegal. Total shares of a company should be verified and synthetics should be removed , the system is rigged for the elites. Shorting should be reported on a daily basis. Crypto should be used as a replacement for a stock , so that the stock can not be manipulated or replicated and shorted. The people should determine the stock value and not some hedgefunds that control the economy.

I agree with the proposals as listed. I believe this would prevent or reduce the manipulation many believe the market is subject to at present. As such it would promote confidence within retail investors many of whom believe that institutional investors have made the market inherently unfair to them and as such retail may begin to disengage with investing. These proposals I believe would also protect the markets from undue risk caused by the practices of naked shorting, FTDs being hidden and close out dates being changed to allow the firm more time to deliver.

Accredited Investor status should be dismissed. Anyone should be given equal opportunity to invest their money as they see fit rather than the rich getting richer (accredited) and the poor staying poor (since they can’t invest in things if they don’t have a large sum of assets or make six figures). If you can gamble legally(anyone) than you should be allowed to buy assets. It’s the same thing…a risk. And as an adult, we should be able to assess our own risk, no matter how much or how little money we have or make.

You should create a public portal where people can ask their questions publicly and WEEKLY have the SEC chairman answer a bunch of them. The reason people are generally so angry with the SEC is because we never feel like they actually have the retail investor's best interests in mind. Communication is KEY to success and the more the SEC has open communication with who they represent, the more everyone will feel better.