For the markets to be a truly capitalist vehicle, all data available so some must be available to all. SEC Rules mean nothing to these large firms because the penalties are not severe enough to matter. The relatively small fines for violating the laws of the US and the rules of the SEC are simply the cost of doing business for these firms. It is public knowledge they budget these things into their operating expenses.

While these increased reporting requirements around the currently broadly abused short selling practices in the stock market (including naked shorting, mis-reporting longs as shorts, re-hypothecated shares, married puts/calls, and fails to deliver) are a step in the right direction, the proposed changes do not go far enough to provide transparency and fairness to the public.

I believe that in this age of technology we live in, there is no reason the reports should not be daily. After all, do we not want a fair and transparent market. The sooner information can be attained, the sooner people can make informed decisions.

please stop or limit shorting of stocks. the average workers only retirement is in their 401k. the rules behind shorting stocks needs to be changed. they kill the average investor that is relying on this for their retirement.

I've not seen any regulation on Dark Pools. This needs to be addressed and acted upon as dark pools allow for hedge funds/shorts to manipulate market price by routing stock buys in them. My vote is to outlaw and remove dark pools entirely. I know it's supposed to be used for huge exchanges without affecting the market, but at this point, it's more and more being used for illegal behaviors and doing more harm than good.

Skip to main content For updates and guidance Hello FINRA, I saw you are looking for comments on 21-19, regarding short positions. As I see it, the current US market is full of nothing but fraud, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit through their complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation through naked short selling by large hedgefunds like Citadel and Susquehana being allowed to happen with impunity.

We need to update amc short interest and reporting

Any new rules to regulating shorts would be very welcome as a retail investor. As far as I’m concerned, these are the biggest problem in enforcing REG SHO and regulation of the shorting market is the T2 settlement period which obscures net positions for the average investor. And the other is the blurred line of market makers and hedgefunds. Hedgefunds can easily parade themselves as “bona fide” market makers to skirt Threshold list settlement, and legally issue naked shorts.

Shorting is common practice within the securities market and usually helps balance prices of securities relative to the value of the security & the speed at which they've grown. There is nothing wrong with shorting, however there is a huge problem when certain stocks and securities have over 100 percent of outstanding shares shorted. This is mathematically impossible with the only conclusion to this occurrence leading to more shares being borrowed than the entire amount of outstanding shares. This is where we need changes.

To whom it may concern, I would like to voice my concerns regarding the following: Naked short selling High frequency trading algorithms Payment for order flow Dark pools Over the course of 2021, meme stocks have made quite a splash in financial markets and exposed what would constitute fraud for the average person, but turns into "savvy investing" for financial institutions. The government has allowed the circumstances which caused the 2008 crash to reinsert themselves in our financial markets.