To whom it may concern: It is my understanding FINRA is looking for comments on 21-19, regarding short posions. I think it is very clear that the current US market is full of nothing but fraud, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit through their complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulaon through naked short selling by large hedgefunds like Citadel and Susquehana being allowed to happen with impunity.

In a fair and open market there should be transparency and a level playing field for all investors; be they retail or institutional. The number of shares shorted should be available IN REAL TIME throughout the trading day. Dark pool trading must be eliminated. We can clearly see that large institutions are buying massive quantities of AMC stock (for example) on the dark pool and then flooding the public exchange with shares (via selling, short-selling and short laddering) in order to MANIPULATE THE PRICE DOWN.

Every share should be tracked in a live public database with a unique identifier. Every share should be located and lent only once. Every order should be delivered T+2 or fails to deliver are actually costly penalties along the lines of 10x cost penalty. Every short position should be updated with FINRA daily.

All short positions should be reported on. #duh

Things FINRA should implement: 1. Automated daily reporting of short positions 2. Automated daily reporting of all trading in Dark Pools 3. Automated daily reporting of synthetic shares/naked shorting 4. FTD should be delivered T+2, no exceptions. 5. All data accessible to the public in real time. 6. Force all Market Makers to give retail investors routing options on trades. (option to have your order NOT routed through dark pools) 7. Margin call over leveraged Hedge Funds. Quit letting them keep borrowing. 8. Margin calls enforced. 9. Margin calls enforced. 10. Margin calls enforced. 11.

I personally believe that short interest data should be available live without any delays (i.e. T+2 settlement) and that ALL short interest data must be reported across the board. Additionally I believe that fines for illicit practices should be equal to no less than the profit of the particular trade PLUS an additional 10% in order to discourage the practice from happening again.

There isn’t ANY transparency within the market. Dark pools need to be GONE as they are being over used and abused.. SSR needs to be enforced much more strictly. FTDs need to be enforced without delay. And NAKED SHORTING is supposed to be illegal but is still being used only by hedge funds and market makers.. How is this a free market???!! The hedge funds leash is way too long. Nobody will trust the market after this.

I cannot get a handle on short interest and am hoping to get reports out faster, in addition the penalty for not reporting short position is not working. If a fund or person is underwater and would hurt to report their shorts they wont and do not and take the penalty as a slap on the wrist and ignore the law. I need more transparency in the market to feel a real trust and unless some action is taken i may never invest again in the NYSE, thanks Matt lenz

New Datamodules for Short Selling cool but it will definitly not fix the problem, that the retail is charged invisible fee's and Market Makers abusing those retail investors by pulling them to buy more shares take those fee's and letting other institutions do their dirty work by shorting the stock to keep it low and paying them liquidity with those made fee's to keep going, especially in those Darkpools! The retail would have made a 5000x profit, instead they are kept there like cows, milking them dry.

I honestly have been losing faith in our stock market in general and want to bring integrity back to our markets. If shares aren’t properly reported and have the ability to be manipulated on a mass scale then what’s the point of the every day investor even attempting to do anything?? My comment would be to enforce the law on ALL of us not just some. If naked shorting or selling of stocks they DONT have is happening then let’s correct that. We all know by creating fake shares it dilutes the market even if it’s temporarily.