This rule needs to be in place to set the short sellers straight and bring to light their positions.

There needs to be more transparency with short selling. Any large institutions or hedge funds should be required to report short interest weekly if not daily. There shouldn't be an incentive for investors to short others to hope for them to go bankrupt. Investors who get premiums for the short shares to be borrowed should be taxed a higher rate for that premium. I can go on and on but ultimately I'm asking for more transparency with short selling.

As an international investor, I would like to see the following changes: 1. All short reporting (naked or otherwise) should be reported on a daily basis. 2. If a particular entity shorts a stock more than 5% it should be reported just like long positions. 2. Shorting a stock above 30-40% should not be allowed due to share dilution it causes.

Hello FINRA, I saw you are looking for comments on 21-19, regarding short positions. As I see it, the current US market is full of fraud, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit through their complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation through naked short selling by large hedge funds like Citadel and Susquehana being allowed to happen with impunity. The SEC and FINRA have known about this illegal counterfeiting practice for many years, with nothing being done to rectify the illegality of the market conditions. Naked shorting is illegal.

Hello FINRA, As an active retail investor, I would like to see brokerages be held accountable to publish hourly (maximum, daily) short interest position figures that include: - The volume of short interest positions taken by their clients in a given hour or day - Details on all of the short interest orders, including specifically the price and quantity of short interest orders that have occurred in an hour or day Thank you for your time! :)

I appreciate the opportunity to submit comments on Short Interest Reporting. I am not against short selling, and as a retail investor I have made some very profitable trades over the years on the short side. However, I was always required to locate the shares, request to borrow and confirm they were received before I could enter the position. I am concerned that the current rules are not being followed by the institutional firms, and they are not being enforced by governing bodies. If the reporting requirements were more frequent I think this would help.

To Whom It May Concern, Regarding the Proprietary and Customer Account Categorization, I support specifying short interest held across proprietary accounts and customer accounts for each equity security as of the close of the reporting settlement data.

Please do something about the illegal shorts. Thank you

I believe all short interest data should be released daily. Explain to me why everyone of my long position buys are documented daily and can be used against me to short by those that don’t have to disclose. I also don’t believe dark pools eliminate a free and equitable economic opportunity for everyone.

Please make synthetic short interest reporting hourly or daily. Please make short interest reporting transparent. Current reporting is not fair to individual investors!