Dear FINRA, I will keep it short: Dark Pools that are only available to large hedgefunds and banks, and which make use of different pricing and availability, are causing the entire stock market to turn against the individual retail investor. These Dark Pools can be used to load up on shares of a specific company and then unload those bought shares onto the common stock market, causing the price of the stock to plummet. Therefore, this practice must either be upheld entirely, or the activity within these Dark Pools needs to be made readily publicly available.

Shorting a company is fine, but malicious shorting and the use of naked shorting along with dark pool abuse is far from fine. The fact that hedge funds can do this is disgusting and a slap in the face of the retail investor. They need to be openly called out and exposed, and the use of naked shorting and dark pool abuse done away with.

Price manipulation and cheating is not the american way.

With all due respect "reporting" is a small part of the shorting problem. While I support more immediate reporting requirements, the issue is naked shorting, mislabeling of shorts (as longs), and other shorting malfeasance being used by market makers (i.e. Citadel and Virtu) to manipulate market prices and destroy market integrity. Fines are also the biggest joke. Citadel has been fined for illegal shorting practices and FTDs in the past and the criminal activity continues to this day.

As long as profits out weigh the fines… are they really fines? You can keep creating rules with no teeth but all these rules equate to is permission.

Hello Finra! , Thank you for listening to the people about these issues! we really need our voices heard since we might be a lot of individuals but we are not as organized as some big money entities are and we cant express ourselves in a very cohesive way but anyways. Please take a look into short selling taking place in $AMC & $GME and some others that i belive are being manipulated against retail investor interests. the NYSE even said that the price action is not representing reality and that a lot of what happens goes through the dark pools.

For those who have an FPL account, is there a way in which we can view where the broker is getting the variable interest rate used? I have noticed is a fraction of what is reported from sources like fintel.io. Seems like there are many behind the scenes deals going on to allow for manipulation. If stocks are loaned out, then the interest rate should be able to have some reference of where the figure was gathered from.

I agree on the rule regulatory notice 2019 and personally want it approved!

As a RIA for over 20 yrs I have seen my fair share of shorting and have done it with some equities in special cases for aggressive clients. I am a small independent RIA that uses a combination of ETFs and individual stocks in the management of my clients funds. I can tell you flat out that the system of clearing and reporting short sales is completely broken. This is especially true with small, mid, and micro cap stocks. I have owned my firm for 10 yrs and will now no longer buy or hold any small cap stocks.....and instead just buy the index.

Hello, my name is Justin Darrow. I'm pleased to see you're requesting feedback on how to make the stock market more fair, something the SEC doesn't seem to do. When it come to short interest positions, there are 3 things I'd love to see besides the wonderful things you mentioned 1. A T+0 settlement would obviously be the best option. Atleast after market close but buy orders, sell orders and short sale orders and interest should shown in real time. 2.When institutions have to disclose their long position publicly, they should also have to report their short positions.