To me, it is absolutely absurd that short positions are not required to be reported. If you require long positions to be reported, why shouldn't short positions? It seems as though the regulators are far too concerned with keeping the status quo and are letting hedge funds run wild, in a largely unregulated portion of the market.

There isn’t ANY transparency within the market. Dark pools need to be GONE. SSR needs to be enforced much more strictly. FTDs need to be enforced without delay. The hedge funds leash is way too long. The fines are a pittance compared to the money made by bad actors..They laugh at regulatory agencies and see the fines as a cost of doing business.,

These fines need to be raised! It's not fair that someone can net millions in undisclosed naked short positions and only be fined 10k for ruining a company! That's very suspicious for FINRA as you figured that was satisfactory. Every Short positions NEED to be disclosed and accounted for to stop the manipulation in the market! I'm also not so sure that the dark pool is a reputable source to pull shares off exchange. If retail does not have access to the dark pool no one should have access to the dark pool!

The short selling as a business action to "bet" against what is considered a failing business is understandable. It's when a company uses various tricks in the market to create more shorts than should actually exist, IE naked short selling. Various people that are not apart of the regulatory system have proven such naked shorts exist and yet the system set in place does nothing to stop it.

1. Require shares to be acquired before they can be sold. It is ridiculous that today shares are often not even located or are only located before actually being sold. Borrow the shares first, then sell them. 2. Better tracking of borrowed shares. It is ridiculous that shares can be leant out multiple times (often because they are only 'located' and not actually obtained before allowed to be shorted. 3. With todays technologies and API's there is zero reason to have delays in data.

T+0 reporting of short interest. No using the options chain to push FTD's past the original settlement date. Restrict the use of dark pools to trades larger than %5 of the float. Generally enforce existing rules in good faith.

I am a fairly new retail investor who got into the market with an interest at the time I saw as positive and opportunistic. After experiencing, first hand, how the market actually works and facilitates abusive naked short selling - that interest has turned into cynicism. What I would like to see, personally, is FINRA to enforce existing rules in a manner that actually seeks to stop market abuse. Here is a simple rule, that doesn't require more than a paragraph: If you fail to deliver on a short position, that position must be closed - immediately.

Naked shorting illegal. Excessive FTD are punished. SSR actually enforced and shorting cannot be done in dark pools. Price manipulation banned. When buying volume is higher than selling volume, the price should NOT be going down. Please look into and start enforcing fair market trading. Thank you.

I would like to see automatic reporting of shorts and short interest and not self-reporting. I have a three year old and if I'd ask her to self-report when she does something wrong life would be peachy. The brokers, market makers and multitude of firms, funds, offices and other institutions have shown that they are unreliable or downright fraudulent when it comes to reporting. They should not be allowed to do so when lying is in their best interest, financially or otherwise. Asking financial terrorists to turn themselves in is doomed to fail.

Short-selling of stocks should be abolished. The practice is damaging because it artificially lowers stock prices. The practice of profiting from a company's failures is immoral. By selling shares that they do not possess, short-sellers temporarily reduce stock prices, because if those transactions had not occurred, fewer shares would be available for buyers to purchase. Short-sellers disrupt the normal bid/ask process. Short-sellers have been known to collude and sully the reputations of the companies that they short, by spreading bad news. Such behavior does occur, and it is unsavory.