Oct. 30, 2022
October 30, 2022 Dear SEC, As an european retail investor I feel like stock holders are not protected by regulatory agencies in the United States, and for that matter, neither in europe by your counter parties. The allowance of dark pools and private block trades directly contradicts with price discovery and Payment For Order Flow allowing big players to \"front run\" every single trade that reaches their platform and the ability to route it to a lit exchange or route the order into a dark pool where our investment has ZERO impact on the lit market or supply and demand price discovery. It is well known that institutions have been abusing some privilidges to naked short (locate without borrow, sell and forever FTD) and during the 2008 crisis this was very well known and then hidden under the rug. Market participants/Institutions learned how to hide massive amount of short positions in swaps (Archegos should be a pretty well example) while remaining hidden for the rest of the world. Self regulatory organizations have been \"tweaking\" their algorithems when things \"glitch\