As a hard working citizen of the USA, I put my faith in the government to ensure the system work for all investors. It is hard enough for folks having to deal with rising real estate and other costs, but I am told to work hard and invest to offset. I am losing faith in the system and the government who sworn to protect all investors. I do not understand why short sellers have so many opportunities and loop holes to fail delivery. A transaction should be transparent and if you cannot deliver on your shares on a timely manner then you ought to not be part of the transaction.

We as retail need full transparency on these synthetic short positons. Hedge funds have an unfair advantage over retail to sway a market one way or the other we need a level playing field. thank you.

I notice you are welcoming comments on regulatory notice 21-19 regarding short positions.In my opinion, the current US financial system is highly fraudulent, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit by complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation through naked short selling by large hedge funds like Citadel and Susquehanna being allowed to happen with impunity. The SEC and FINRA have known about this illegal counterfeiting practice for many years, with very little being done to rectify the illegality of the practice.

Help us get to T+1 and then to T+0. Help us get rid of payment for order flow. These two things alone will help the naked short crisis that we're witnessing across the market and put more trust in us. Fines should be astronomical on those caught red handed instead of the slaps on the wrists that we know that finra has done in the past. I'm tired of people keep thinking that retail traders should be grateful when in reality we are investors too. We deserve to have our voices heard just like everyone else.

I mean where do I start. Really it at all falls on these hedge funds, "family offices", the corrupt DTCC, banks and market makers that really need to be investigated, watched and monitored constantly like they are small children to make sure their shady activities can't be executed with ease and no repercussions. If fines are handed down make the amounts astronomical so they stop. A 10k fine for a hedge fund or "family office" that controls 15, 20, 30 billions dollars etc is pocket change to them. Make dark pools/OTC harder to access so more transactions are reflected in a stocks price.

As a newer investor, I am appalled at the lack of transparency in the market. The information I have discovered involving dark pools, naked shorting of shares, and hiding FTD's within options is the most blatant forms of manipulation in any field that I have been a part of. How this has been allowed for all these years with only a slap-on-the-wrist penalty is disgraceful. The sad part is that after multiple fines, sometimes hundreds of fines for the same firms, they are still doing it today.

I notice you are welcoming comments on regulatory notice 21-19 regarding short positions. In my opinion, the current US financial system is highly fraudulent, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit by complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation through naked short selling by large hedge funds like Citadel and Susquehanna being allowed to happen with impunity. The SEC and FINRA have known about this illegal counterfeiting practice for many years, with very little being done to rectify the illegality of the practice.

I want to see some fines that equal entire profit made, from these corrupt companies. If they are fined 1 million dollars, but make 10 billion dollars they will continue to cheat and steal from retail investors.

When I buy and hold a stock, like AMC, the obvious hope and intent for me is that the price will go up and I will make a profit. So it doesn’t make sense to me that an entity that holds my shares for me, like Robinhood for example, can lend my shares to someone else then the borrower uses my shares to short and drive down the price. They benefit by achieving their goal of lowering the price, the middleman makes and keeps for themselves interest on the loaning of my shares, some of these entities make it difficult to impossible to turn off share lending.