Short selling, when done ethically for the right reasons, provides an important market balance. However, it is obvious given events of the last several months that some entities are engaged in naked short selling and market manipulation. Because of the current lack of oversight, lack of detailed reporting, and the other obvious problems those entities are causing massive chaos. This kind of predatory stock dilution cannot be allowed.

While more reporting around Short Interest Positions is to be encouraged and applauded, unless the market "plumbing" that allows failures-to-deliver to continue in perpetuity is also addressed, these changes will not solve the underlying problem. Address short interest reporting AND the failures-to-deliver problem if you really want to fix this issue.

Please don't delay this rule - any formatting is okay.

How about proactively tracking and eliminating naked shorting practices? Naked shorting is illegal but it's certainly not stopping hedge funds from doing it. The benefits of bankrupting a company are obvious and known. Give us a level playing field and be the Robinhood we need. We had enough with the oppression!

Regarding section D. "Information on Allocations of Fail-to-Deliver Positions" in the sections marked as "Identify of correspondent firm" and "Amount allocated to correspondent firm (number of shares).

do this. naked short selling should be illegal. if i’m a used car salesman and have a title for a car, but then make thousands of copies of that title to sell, i’d go to jail. but in the financial market? it’s the current practice of many hedge funds and market makers.

Hello, I wholeheartedly support FINRA's step toward a slightly more transparent system. FINRA requests comment on whether FINRA should publish on the FINRA website short interest data for all equity securities (listed and unlisted). • Yes, absolutely all short interest data should be published. FINRA requests comment on whether the potential short interest enhancements discussed above would be equally beneficial for both OTC equity securities and exchange-listed equity securities.

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.The SEC and FINRA have known about this illegal counterfeiting practice for many years, with nothing being done to rectify the illegality of the market conditions.

Recent market activity involving GameStop stock has shed light on misbehavior by hedge funds and other financial institutions involved in a practice called naked short selling. Though naked short selling was made illegal after the 2008 financial crisis, loopholes exist that allow for this practice to continue. (More details here: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nakedshorting.asp). This includes fraudulent activity involving Shorts, Borrowed Shares, and Failures to Deliver.

First, there is no rule that can be put in place where the repurcussions are fines. Fines are a cost of doing business. Period. The street always makes far more money illegally then they pay in fines. 150% minimum fines. Now, that said, self reporting is a joke. We have the systems and technology available to ensure trades are marked correctly, that they are delivered adequately, not rehypothecated, and accurately reported. We should have 100% free, 100% accurate long vs short data on every stock, every day. Absolutely NO exemptions for any market participate, for any reason.