I fully support this proposed rule change and additional rule regarding short position reporting. Additional rules to protect investors, especially retail investors, should be explored on this topic as well as other issues such as order flow prioritization, block share lending, and ability to dictate exchanges for orders to be sent to. How is it possible for >50% of the daily trading volume to be done on private exchanges with no price reporting? How can these exchanges limit who is eligible to participate on them?

Finra should absolutely be stricter on the frequency and the details reported on shorts and short interest. No company should be getting shorted any more than 75%

I would like to suggest taking power out of your own hands as self regulators. SROs are inherently corrupt and there is no way around apply a significant punishment to you pursuing your personal interests if it also you to police yourselves. Seems to me as thought Pharmaceutical industries are not the FDA, and you are supposed to be the ones protecting yourselves from stealing the money you are put in charge of. This ends.

The SEC and the government is supposed to oversee and check the hedgefund's activities and make sure that there no crimes such as naked shorting or dark pools going on.

This is is the 21 century I see no reason short interest can not be reported daily. I also see no reason it should not be. This would be one step towards making the market a more fair and safe place to trade. I would expect this in the basic opinion of the majority of all the comments you have. I would be interested in who and why anyone would be against this.

1. Enforcement should be as immediate as possible. 2. Transparency : Give detailed numbers, company names and extended information on your investigation. 3. Bigger fines. Let's be real. The fines you're giving are symbolic. What's even the point exactly? 4. Kinda unrelated but maybe the best way to enforce those ruled is for finra to cease to exist? And be replaced by a public entity financed by the people for the people.

All of that should already be in place. Synthetic shorts are an illegal practice anyways, so reporting them would just oust the form doing them thus implicating them in a crime. But yes they should be reported; As the amount of synthetic shares could and most like does in fact dwarf the actual share count of a particular stock if the hedge funds are trying to bankrupt them. Examples being currently gamestop and amc, and toys’r’us from the past. The entirety of Wall Street should be indicted for massive malpractice.

Request more transparency. Retail investors should have visibility on all exchanges and they should be immediate. Current technology makes this possible. T+2 system is a relic of an antiquated system. The current system architecture puts all the advantage to large firms that have access to information that is either restricted or delayed to the retail investor. This obviously creates an un-level playing field. The SEC needs to take aggressive action on “naked shorting” and other illegal stock market manipulations. Current actions are extremely slow (ie take years to investigate and try).

Anytime reported shorting goes from a high percentage to a lower one without any sign of short squeezing and the price of a stock continues to drop, should immediately trip a signal to report for investigation. For instance, when AMC was showing a reported shorting percentage of over 18% on July 6th and then today, the 13th, the stock drops drastically and shows it’s now 15% shorted from borrowed shares. But now short squeezing alerts were triggered, and no signs of a huge sell off. Even Ortex said this is unusual!