I am in favor for an increase in short interest reporting regulation. More notably in adopting new regulations to have synthetic short positions reported to FINRA. Also short interest reporting should be increased from twice a month to daily and the dissemination should go down from 7 days to 2 days. I'm also in agreement to the purposed FTD changes, actually have any and all FTD settled in
the current laws allow the big brokers and hedge funds to make a fortune killing small companies. one highly shorted stock, inovio (INO) has life saving cancer and covid drugs in the making, but are being hampered by shorts. please put a stop to this. make everyone play by the same rules. find a better way to keep track of stocks and how they are borrowed. i think america, and traders around the
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I would like to see more oversight over short interest reporting. Increasing the reporting requirement frequency to daily would be a great start to begin leveling the playing field. The game is rigged right now. Investors will stop investing in equities eventually if they believe (rightfully so) that the whole game is rigged. Firms like Citron Research need to be out of business.
I would like to have equal transparency among all investors and eliminate dark pool trading and other off site trading venues that the majority of retail investors do not have access to. Fines for cheating are not enough. Liquidate institutions who fail to deliver!