I am a retail investor and have been for close to 12 years now. In my opinion, short sellers should be transparent in their dealings and if I had the ability, I would close dark pool opportunities for institutions since it seems to be a way to manipulate the market data overall. Regulations should be as up to date with data tracking and not be in a delay such as with the Ortix report coming out only 2 times a month.

As a relative newcomer to investing short interest seems to be a very complex subject to understand the situation regarding a company's share price and its analysis. Simple, accurate and timely information would help make a more informed decision on where to invest hard earned money. As such I feel information reported should be equally simple. Number of short positions opened, number of shares bought back to close short position, shares returned to lender. Daily reporting would be ideal. Also shares on loan should be reported and only a loaned share should be shorted.

Predatory naked short selling is the bane of healthy markets in this age. The tricks these funds use to hide these positions are unacceptable and frankly just plain cheating. SI reports are basically useless as all a company need do is simply report false data and pay a measly fine. There are too many holes in this ship and it is quickly filling with water. FINRA is largely toothless to stop this as the fines you hand out are minuscule in comparison to profits. All you are doing is taking your cut, the fines you give out need a few more zeroes before it hurts.

1) Daily short reporting, not this every 15 days nonsense. If we rob a bank we go to jail, the hedge funds pay a $1,000 fine and go back to work and profiting. 2) No more restricted trading. Blockchain type IDs for every share issued and no borrowing of shares at all. 3) No selling of shares that don’t exist at made up prices. Get rid of the market maker exception. This violates the law of supply and demand.