The reporting requirements of short interest and short positions has long been due for reform. Running rampant in the market has been illegal market manipulation of stock prices utilizing failures of short reporting, specifically regarding short-exempt shares, naked short-selling, short positions being reported as long positions, hiding failure-to-delivers inside of far out-of-the-money puts/calls, among other failures of accurate reporting and tracking.

I feel that the current system of allowing Hedge funds, and wealthy investors to run rampant on Wall Street shorting stocks into oblivion only to slight the retail investor. Overleveraging themselves into positions based on pride and ego and then expecting the American Taxpayer to foot the bill when they go bankrupt and lose people's retirement and 401k is absolutely appalling. Selling something and failing to produce it to the purchaser is called theft. FTDs should be forced to settle immediately. And T+ anything over Zero is rediculous.

While appreciative of the gesture, there must be action behind it. We are in a new era of retail investing and the rules still favor the Goliath's of wall street. Complete transparency and equality in the reporting of data must be enforced. Retail should have the same access to information, data and tools that hedge funds and market makers have access to. More importantly, ACCOUNTABILITY for manipulation, illegal trading practices, and hiding of information must be enforced.

I would like more transparency in regards to short interest and naked shorting of stocks. Trading is rigged against retail investors and all I want to see is a level playing field. Thank you.

We want transparency and no dark pools

It is my opinion that short sales and short interest should be reported at end of trading day and not delayed by 14 days.

I believe this is a great idea to add transparency to the market place, and to add more TRUST to the market as well.

Thank you for this opportunity to send in a comments and for taking the time to consider the requests. It would be nice if the public reporting of short positions was increased and if there was more detail in the public reports.

I want much more transparency in the market, especially when it comes to buy/sell orders in ATS. All information market makers have when it comes to filing for a short position should be just as accessible to retail traders. Lastly, short positions buys/sell should be disclosed the day of filing. No more T+ nonsense. Thank you kindly, I hope this helps.

We need a fair and transparent market! Naked shorting has to STOP! The market is heavy manipulated. The SEC NEEDS TO DO THIER JOB. Dark pool trading is unfair. Thank you.