It will never be a fair playing field if shorts are not disclosed and we will look like frauds to the entire world. Naked short sellers deserve prison.

Of particular interest is the section on Synthetic Short Positions. It seems that approved participants can use synthetics to improve market liquidity, but it also creates a problem of diluting the stock when the shorts fail to deliver. Would position reporting also help to track FTD's better and implement some regulation to have those failures sufficiently resolved before more synthetics are allowed to be created? I understand this could squeeze the shorts a bit, but it seems to make sense in terms of correctly managing scalability.

Short selling, when done ethically for the right reasons, provides an important market balance. However, it is obvious given events of the last several months that some entities are engaged in naked short selling and market manipulation. Because of the current lack of oversight, lack of detailed reporting, and the other obvious problems those entities are causing massive chaos. This kind of predatory stock dilution cannot be allowed.

While more reporting around Short Interest Positions is to be encouraged and applauded, unless the market "plumbing" that allows failures-to-deliver to continue in perpetuity is also addressed, these changes will not solve the underlying problem. Address short interest reporting AND the failures-to-deliver problem if you really want to fix this issue.

Please don't delay this rule - any formatting is okay.

How about proactively tracking and eliminating naked shorting practices? Naked shorting is illegal but it's certainly not stopping hedge funds from doing it. The benefits of bankrupting a company are obvious and known. Give us a level playing field and be the Robinhood we need. We had enough with the oppression!

Regarding section D. "Information on Allocations of Fail-to-Deliver Positions" in the sections marked as "Identify of correspondent firm" and "Amount allocated to correspondent firm (number of shares).

do this. naked short selling should be illegal. if i’m a used car salesman and have a title for a car, but then make thousands of copies of that title to sell, i’d go to jail. but in the financial market? it’s the current practice of many hedge funds and market makers.

Hello, I wholeheartedly support FINRA's step toward a slightly more transparent system. FINRA requests comment on whether FINRA should publish on the FINRA website short interest data for all equity securities (listed and unlisted). • Yes, absolutely all short interest data should be published. FINRA requests comment on whether the potential short interest enhancements discussed above would be equally beneficial for both OTC equity securities and exchange-listed equity securities.