Subject: Comment Letter for File Number S7-08-22 Short Position and Short Activity Reporting by Institutional Investment Managers
From: Luke Green
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Oct. 17, 2022

 


Short selling creates an incentive for institutions (like hedge funds) and individuals to attempt to tear down American businesses for profit. If you are not going to ban this practice you should at least make transparency mandatory so that any institution who shorts a stock be made to disclose the exact amount they are short a stock (measured in number of shares) whether that short position is through a swap or classical short sale. They should be made to update this information on a daily basis, in real time,  


Thank you, 
Luke Green