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.

Please put these new rules in place. We need transparency in our markets, especially with regard to short selling and dark pool activity. Naked shorting, short ladder attacks, spoofing, as well as online intimidation is taking place on stocks like AMC and many others for that matter and it just isn’t fair to the American people. Prime brokers like Citadel should not be permitted to reroute retail orders into the darkpools, to bet against or delay our orders. Our orders should go straight to the NYSE or appropriate exchange.

FINRA I would like more frequent public reporting of short positions and more detail in public reports. Not asking for much. Thank you.

There are countless things investors want changed in order to have a fair chance of succeeding in the open stock market without the mass manipulation and lack of transparency that is designed for the people to lose and the big institutions to take the profits. To put it simply, investors want accountability and enforcement of the current regulations. There are already many regulations in place, but institutions continue to ignore them and continue to manipulation stocks for personal greed.

There shouldn't be a two day delay in short sale returns and coverage. All the big players on Wall Street get it the day of and yet everyone else has to wait 2 days. How about making the rules fair for everyone and everyone being able to see it the same day. Also I'm sick of algorithmic trading back and forth back and forth back and forth. When you going to outlaw something like that that only big hedge funds can actually do in that other traders cannot. Retail traders cannot buy stocks one by one penny by Penny on the way up in fractions of a second.

Short sale, short interest, fails to deliver, hedge funds using the same collateral for different margin accounts and loans, and all dark pools information should be made available to the public as daily reports as LIVE FEEDS. Data Science algorithms can reveal how these market manipulators are stealing money from retail investors. Data and information should be available as LIVE FEEDS just like the hedge funds can view them. Reports need to be readily available daily and hourly!

-Enhanced Failure to Delivery, Failure to Settle, Market Buy Ins, Market Lock Ins and FINRA to Publicly report these in a timely manner in .csv format on their website. The only data currently available is "Failures to Deliver" which is only 1 of several metrics. Retail and others would greatly benefit from the transparency added by simply providing this additional information about Failures to Deliver.

My comments are as follows: 1. The T-2 settlement period needs to changed to a T-0 or T-evening (the day of). The fact that retail investors have to wait two days, whereas institutional investors don't, violates a free and fair market. 2. Eliminate the loopholes and gaps in the rules that allow institutional investors to wait until T-35 and beyond to settle FTDs. For an example AMC and GME stock were on the threshold list for multiple months of 2020, not just the 13 days that list was intended to inforce. 3. Eliminate payment for order flow. 4.

Market manipulation and naked shorting is supposed to be illegal. But of course as we can see it's an everyday practice for hedge funds on a daily basis with a minor slap on the wrist if brought to light. How is it still possible for so much shorting to still be going on ?

There are countless things investors want changed in order to have a fair chance of succeeding in the open stock market without the mass manipulation and lack of transparency that is designed for the people to lose and the big institutions to take the profits. To put it simply, investors want accountability and enforcement of the current regulations. There are already many regulations in place, but institutions continue to ignore them and continue to manipulation stocks for personal greed.