Private short positions should not be allowed. All short positions should be disclosed to the public

To whom this may concern, We the people want you to hold short sellers and hedge funds accountable. There is blatant market manipulation going on which effects millions of people across the globe. The dark pools should be abolished. We need visible transparency in the market for fair and honest practice which is preached but not practiced.

The entire world is watching as hedge funds manipulate what is supposed to be a fair market. We need the criminals to be outed and prosecuted. I don't see any way to maintain any faith in the system without it. We need transparency with what is happening specifically regarding AMC and GME. It's clear Citadel is manipulating the price using the dark pools and routing the buy orders there. Inflow beats outflow for a week and the price drops every day. How is that allowed to happen?

Dark pool should go away permanently. Naked shorts should be fined 100% of current value at time of shorting. When market confidence erodes to a critical level, foreign investors and all retail investors will pull their money from the shady operations on Wall Street…we are approaching the critical level. If all of the corruption is allowed unchecked, there will be consequences eventually.

The current state the US market is full of fraud and manipulation. There is definitely a need for change. It’s a massive conflict of interest when a company is a hedge fund and a market maker!! All shares, synthetic and short, needs to reported daily and posted for retail investors. The market makers/hedge funds have all the information in front of them to make their informed decision. Retail investors are left in the dark. Level the playing field. The world is watching the US stock market.

The amount of blatant market manipulation is putting a huge amount of doubts in the US market. As retail investors, we DESERVE transparency in all aspects. If they can see what we're trading, we should be able to see what they're shorting. If the SEC actually did their jobs, we wouldn't be in the situation that we're currently in when it comes to AMC/GME. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. Thank you for your time. ..... a concerned retail investor

As a new investor, I am skeptical about the fairness of the stock market to the average person. Their should not be a dark pool or after hours trading , illegal and synthetic shorts are killing the American economy. The true stock investment is tainted and the “SEC” is not not policing there policies. The American people are catching on to illegal orchestrated attacks on company’s by hedgefunds. The world is watching GME and AMC being illegally shorted by synthetic shares. Why not disclose the real stock vs synthetic stocks, because the 1% hold power.

There is blatant manipulation of prices in dark pools. There is no reason for any off market trading. market makers should not have the option to create shares. people working for the regulator should not work for the company they are regulating. naked shorts are illegal. Ask the SEC to actually work?

Retail Investors should be allowed the same privileges as everyone else. Our money is green just like the hedge funds. There should be no way stocks can be manipulated or not reported fully.

There is a crime spree running free in the stock market and nobody is doing a thing about it. Naked shorting is illegal, and should punished harshly and published for the world to see. If I sell you something I don’t own, that is called fraud, and I would end up in jail. It should be just as illegal to sell shares that don;t exist. The perpetrators of this should get a minimum 5 year prison sentence and all their assets liquidated and distributed to all individuals who lost money due to their shady dealings.