Shorting as a market practice is a ridiculous concept to begin with because in no other area of a capitalist market can You borrow something that is already owned and then sell it, only to buy it back at a lower price to intentionally profit off of the original lender. That aside, self reporting clearly isn't working, and the ability for borrowed stock to be mis-marked, intentionally or otherwise, is a long standing pervasive issue. Shares need a better marking system to denote "BORROWED" and "SOLD WHILE BORROWED (shorted)" and a running tally until returned to the original lender.

There are no rules. Why even have all of this? Naked shorting continues, dark pool trading is out of control. EVERYTHING is set up for the institutions and the super rich to get richer, and the retail investor to be left holding a bag. The institutions are allowed to continue to gamble recklessly and get bailed out when it doesn’t go their way. There needs to be real change in the system to be fair, and transparent.

I feel that the reporting needs to be more frequently and made available to the public on short positions, naked shorts and shirt interest. Retail investors are at a disadvantage for not seeing the changes in markets and the flow of orders and the short interest that are restricted or limited to a monthly reporting scheme. It allows market makers and big players to manipulate the market and make profits based on hidden information restricting the opportunity to have a free market stock market.

The markets will never be fair unless ALL data is available openly and within a reasonable time frame for viewing by retail and commercial alike. This includes all the ADF data.

How has the activity with AMC not resulted in any action or change?

Short sales in general used to manipulate stock price is price manipulation of a stock and should be 100% illegal. With that being said if it is to continue it needs to be live time and 100% trackable. What I am watching happen with short selling, naked short selling and dark pool trading is beyond criminal and needs to be addressed asap. The world is watching.

Hello and good evening. I would just like to comment that it makes no sense why the market maker "Citadel" trades on the dark pool that they created not having to report any information while they look at every order we make. Investing in a company should not be playing against the house, this is not a casino, it is an investment for the better of our economy. FINRA (you) reported GME at a short interest of 309.83% October 16-30 how is this physically possible to short 3x the float? That is naked shorting. Then it just disappears as if it never happened, clearly it was hidden.

If anyone does read this, I would like to say thanks for doing so. First I would like to bring up the families these big hedge funds probably have destroyed by shorting companies they see as competition through what I believe is called compensated bonds. The fact the "system" of wall street and shorting and even buying into stocks is heavily favored to the side of the big institutions and hedge funds. We all deserve equality, even the little guy.

We want transparency. We want the same rulea ACROSS THE BOARD FOR ALL INVESTORS. We want people to have to own shares to be able to sell them. We want fairness, equity, and equality in all transactions.

Finra should absolutely adopt all of the above changes. Any regulation that can be added for transparency in a free market should be added. All of this information should be reported daily and available to everyone to install confidence in a free market system. Above and beyond this, accountability for failure to comply should come with harsher penalties then small fines that can be incurred as a cost of doing business by the offender. Changes need to be made to stop repeat offenders to comply with all rules.