The current state the US market is full of fraud and manipulation. There is definitely a need for change. It’s a massive conflict of interest when a company is a hedge fund and a market maker!! All shares, synthetic and short, needs to reported daily and posted for retail investors. The market makers/hedge funds have all the information in front of them to make their informed decision. Retail investors are left in the dark. Level the playing field. The world is watching the US stock market.

The amount of blatant market manipulation is putting a huge amount of doubts in the US market. As retail investors, we DESERVE transparency in all aspects. If they can see what we're trading, we should be able to see what they're shorting. If the SEC actually did their jobs, we wouldn't be in the situation that we're currently in when it comes to AMC/GME. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. Thank you for your time. ..... a concerned retail investor

As a new investor, I am skeptical about the fairness of the stock market to the average person. Their should not be a dark pool or after hours trading , illegal and synthetic shorts are killing the American economy. The true stock investment is tainted and the “SEC” is not not policing there policies. The American people are catching on to illegal orchestrated attacks on company’s by hedgefunds. The world is watching GME and AMC being illegally shorted by synthetic shares. Why not disclose the real stock vs synthetic stocks, because the 1% hold power.

There is blatant manipulation of prices in dark pools. There is no reason for any off market trading. market makers should not have the option to create shares. people working for the regulator should not work for the company they are regulating. naked shorts are illegal. Ask the SEC to actually work?

Retail Investors should be allowed the same privileges as everyone else. Our money is green just like the hedge funds. There should be no way stocks can be manipulated or not reported fully.

There is a crime spree running free in the stock market and nobody is doing a thing about it. Naked shorting is illegal, and should punished harshly and published for the world to see. If I sell you something I don’t own, that is called fraud, and I would end up in jail. It should be just as illegal to sell shares that don;t exist. The perpetrators of this should get a minimum 5 year prison sentence and all their assets liquidated and distributed to all individuals who lost money due to their shady dealings.

Nice to see this getting some attention. Pretty simple: - Report accurately (weighted to including options strategies) - Potentially more important, would be to report LONGS accurately instead of routing them to the dark pool Appreciate the work you’re doing and future enforcement.

WE NEED TRANSPARENCY! All shorts must be documented and reported immediately! Also, this idea that you can short a stock by shorting a ETF is stilly. To get an idea of what needs to change, take a look at Citadel's shorting of AMC. All that needs to stop. We need to know EXACTLY how much has been shorted and the return dates. Stop the fleecing of retail traders asap!

Purposefully creating synthetic shares of a security for the purpose of naked short selling to manipulate the market price for the security should be a felony. Not a crime that gets a fine, but a send-you-to-prison FELONY! There is absolutely no reason why this should be allowed to continue. It never should have been allowed in the first place. How can a market be free and fair when large traders like hedge funds can create shares of securities that don't exist, and the sell them to people for real money. That goes against the very concept of a security.

The use of dark pools as a tool for price suppression is overwhelmingly clear. Market manipulation is actively taking place and the free reign of large organizations to process transactions off-exchange is essentially cheating the system. Additionally, there is basically no real, enforceable regulation on the shorting of stocks. Through aggressive shorting, powerful entities can drive many businesses to closure by not leaving them a way to generate immediate capital (such as by issuing new shares). Short selling is creating massive problems for the market as a whole.