I would like to see changes in the reporting of shorts taken place in real time, full transparency from all investors from insiders to retail investors (with an emphasis on hedge funds), discontinued use of algorithmic trading tactics, synthetic shares, loop holes used to create selling pressure, and any other market manipulation tactics. I want to see real action taken to prevent and correct malpractice in the stock market.

Company A makes $2 billion from illegal activity and gets fined $70 million. $1.93 billion profit, why would they stop doing it? Currently, punishments deployed by FINRA are absolutely embarrassing.

Individual retail investors and the SEC need daily, hourly, real time, transparency into synthetic short interest, naked shorts, high-frequency, dark pool trading. The dark pool trading and blatant market manipulation creates an unfair advantage to hedge funds and market makers. Without this, the federal government is giving an unfair advantage to Wall Street, and disadvantaging Main Street! Penalties for their use of synthetic shares should include jail time, and monetary fines have done nothing to curb this predatory behavior.

Transparency in the market is required to ensure fairness. It has become apparent over the past few months how market is prone to manipulation by certain firms. I’m in support of this notice.

If I stole from a store I would end up in jail. But when the hedge funds does it. It’s creating a market. Double standard. They are stealing from the American people’s wallets. The same ones that pay for you to secure the exchanges. Which it is not being done. This makes me lose faith In the American stock system if all we are gonna do is lose our money to fake stocks and dark pools. I can’t believe this is being allowed when hundreds of people are complaining and showing proof of the stock market being manipulated. Now, imagine the rest of the world watching. Because they are.

Dark Pools exist for large institutional orders. Use for any other purpose should be illegal. Naked shorting must be prosecuted.

Yes to all. The more transparent, the better. The sooner, the better. Reporting should be on a daily basis, regardless of cost, and I feel that these practices should apply to ALL firms, member or otherwise. This needs to be an across the board regulatory process. The application of these changes, based on membership, will certainly be a cause of competitive discrepancies and will eventually result in new strategies/collusion among member firms and non member firms to circumvent these changes.

Stop allowing naked shorting that’s NOT REPORTED and stop allowing a short position to be pushed out further using more options and avoiding fail to delivers ALL WHILE NOT BEING REPORTED. No one should be able able to short a stock over 100% of the float and yet when it happens everyone looks the other way. So why should they stop? Slapping on the wrist with a small multi million dollar fine while allowing Billions to be made illegally does not work.

Short interest should not be self reported. Needs to be transparent and reported daily. FTD's should cause HEAVY fines. I mean, HEAVY. Maybe 50% of annual profit of a company. Naked shorts need to be investigated, openly disclosed to the public and result in heavy monetary penalties, as well as temporary ban from trading a particular security (maybe 30 or 90 days ban). High frequency trading should be abolished. Publicly traded companies are forced to comply with so much transparency while market makers are getting away with collusion, manipulation and flat out financial treason.

More regulatory rules need to bet set for for hedgge funds creating synthetic shares. They borrow shares that don't exist then have to cover them (FTD) after a certain amount of time. Time should shortened to 5 days and there should be absolutely no way of the Hedge funds getting out of it once 5 days has been reached. The rules need changing!