The only way to have any hope of fixing any issue with shorts would be to change trading tech. There should be no reason it is not used on block chain, specifically ledger technology. The settlement of shares in seconds will no longer allow the manipulation and will likely eliminate naked shorting.

Want more frequent public reporting of short positions and more detail in public reports. Also want rule for brokers to mandatorily have no share lending by default with an option to opt in.

Please update the rules to more accurately report short interest and punish violators of misrepresented position. Clearly this should NOT be done through self-reporting (or at least without regular audits), as the institution have too much to gain by not reporting their positions. If an institution trader is allowed to directly attack a company and negatively effect the price through shorting, why should they be able to conceal their attack as a "long position"?

Thank you for this opportunity to allow the people’s voices to be heard. With the intent to create more transparency within the market I submit the following rules to be implemented immediately: Rule 1. All short sales shall be reported to FINRA by end of each settlement day. Rule 2. FINRA shall make public report the day to day short sale by end of settlement day. Rule 3. All unused loaned shares shall be reported to FINRA by end of settlement day. Rule 4. FINRA shall make public the outstanding unused loaned share by end of settlement day. Rule 5.

Short selling is harmful to price discovery. Just stop it.

FINRA is touching on synthetics when short positions are achieved through the sale of a call option and purchase of a put option. Agreed with this but what can you all do on the synthetics via naked shorts because we know that's happening in a huge way? I like the short interest position reporting but you all need to see who and how teeth can be put into this. The reality is organizations are probably cooking their books and the numbers they're submitting are more than likely skewed in their favor.

We need more frequent public reporting of short positions and more detailed reports.

Request a fair level playing friend as a retail investor. Short sale reporting should not be so secretive or delayed amd take weeks to see the reports. Short sale rules must change.