Yes, short interest should be reported daily or at least weekly and in real time. Not you report today what interest was two weeks ago. Also why take a firms word for it what their short interest is. It should not be self reporting. Should be a system in place to confirm what they are reporting is true. Then finally, the most important thing. MAKE HEDGE FUNDS ACTUALLY REPAY THE SHARES THEY BORROW FROM TIME TO TIME. MARGIN CALL THEM. Someone shouldn’t just be able to keep borrowing forever.

Every share should be given a unique identifier and accounted for. If a share is short it should be marked as loaned and short in a public database that is instantly available to the public. It doesn't have to say WHO but a unique identifier for the trader and platform would be nice. An ID that only the owner of the ID could use to make sure the ledger is valid. Another option would be to use blockchain to store shares and put them into the owner's blockchain wallet on the broker.

Shutdown the dark pools and force everyone to settle and not be able to FTD

In a fair and open market there should be transparency and a level playing field for all investors; be they retail or institutional. The # of shares shorted should be available IN REAL TIME throughout the trading day. Dark pool trading must be eliminated. We can clearly see that large institutions are buying massive quantities of AMC stock (for example) on the dark pool and then flooding the public exchange with shares (via selling, short-selling and short laddering) in order to MANIPULATE THE PRICE DOWN.

I am sick & tired of large hedge funds such as Citadel performing coordinated ladder attacks against GME & AMC, as well as others. Those two charts frequently pattern in lock step with each other. Investors know, as I assume FINRA & SEC does as well, that naked shorting is taking place on a grand scale. To make matters worse, the bulk of the short sales, particularly on those two stocks, get run thru on "lit" exchanges while buy order are routed to dark pools. Shorts are also hidden using married options to create synthetic shares. How is this practice legal or ethical.

Make naked shorts illegal. Make Dark Pools illegal. The corruption of the US finance sector is so perverse that it has drawn attention on a global scale. Get your [REDACTED] together.

Hey. I’m a retail investor and I beg and plead you to put a rush on dark pool buying and a more transparent stock market on short sales and naked shorts. As a retail investor I’ve poured about one hundred thousand dollars in the market and it seems we have been shorted on GameStop, chargepoint and it’s no secret of AMC. As retail investors we want to continue to put money in the market but I can assure you with the platforms I’ve encountered a lot of retail investors are over it. If we don’t see transparency and fairness in it we will as a majority no longer.

Trading should be done in the light. The markets need transparency. There is so much manipulation in the darkness that confidence in the market suffers. Penalties should be a deterrent rather than just a cost of doing business.