How can the hedge funds/MMs continue to illegally push the share price down using fake shares in dark pools outside the eye of the public and then kick the interest can it costs to do that down the road indefinately? Retail investors are getting screwed over by hedge funds at every turn and SEC is allowing the illegal manipulation to happen. What good is interest if it never gets paid? The US stock market is on full display for the whole world to see. Corruption and manipulation by hedge funds and collusion and cooperation by SEC, DTCC, and govt is pathetic.

Quit letting them cheat the market, stop allowing naked shorting and then pretending you have no idea that it’s happening. The world is watching... stop giving the advantage to the Hedgefunds, you guys are running this shit like the gaming authority and you oversee the casinos. We pay you. The market is Trash. #AMC-We’re Not Leaving. Citadel has farrrr to much influence, stop allowing lobbying.

Naked shorting, synthetic share creation, and dark pool order flows for payment need to stop. The algorithms are out of control and have caused our financial systems to be nothing more than programmed manipulation by hedge funds which do not have the interest of the retail trader at heart. Shorts need to report daily and FTDs need to be fully resolved by day 13th - not just the minimum payments to cover and restart the cycle.

Short sale reporting should require actual shares to be in their position to short. Reporting should consolidate every trading day to ensure there is only 100% of the float in circulation. Naked shorting should be a fine at a 15% of the firms last year revenue earned. In addition repeat violations should increase in 30% to impact the firms overall bottom line to ensure it is not the cost of doing business that exist today. Shares should also be located within 48 hours and failure should result in meaningful fines.

I only have 1 comment. The SEC looks like a joke around the world. The rules are clearly not being applied.

I never realized that the "Stock Market" is controlled by the players themselves. Of course they will thwart and break the rules when the penalties and fines are SO miniscule contrasted with the profit they make by breaking 'the rules'. The Average Jane like me has no chance of advancing or even holding our ground against the machine that the US Gov't allows to run rampant. Nothing is off the table any more. The whole Country is corrupt, and this is just another parcel. Do what *you* can, if you aren't in someone's pocket.....

Dark pool money should be illegal. Hedge funds and MM's manipulate stock prices up or down by selectively routing purchases or sales of stock, at their discretion through dark pool funds that goes against all principles of free and fair trading practices. Some say, "well it used to be worse back in the day when all trades were on the floor of the exchanges, and with the advent of computer trading by individual retail investors, the playing field has never been more level". I say bullshit. It's either visible to all or not. And right now, it is not. Make it a law - no Dark Pools.

HEDGE fund are the problem. Pleas to regul the market. Thx

I would like to have more transparency around what stocks are shorted.

It amazes me that citadel can control market orders from Robin Hood. They can see real-time information and use it to control stock prices giving an unfair advantage to retailer investors! They can direct sell orders through the exchange but can place by orders through the dark pool! I strongly disagree that the dark pool should be eliminated but highly encourage all retailer investors’ orders go through the exchange where it was meant to go!