Aug. 16, 2022
August 16, 2022 Dear SEC, Thank you for reading my comments and allowing an opportunity to help keep the markets a fair and growing system that benefits all future parties and not certain groups of investors. I support transaction by transaction reporting because it reduces the ability to hide transactions in the aggregate, I also support the 15 minute reporting. The cost and effort are more than justified to prevent fraud. At times companies can be victimized by predatory investing, these companies need a greater ability to defend themselves and shorting in dark pools prevents true price discovery and true competition. With more transparency retail investors have access to better data allowing them to understand the full risk of their investments and will allow more even decisions by all groups of investors. I believe this strengthens the SECs ability and duty to act as a first-line watchdog to prevent securities fraud. It is also destructive to the market to have long untracked lending chains that can lead to economic fragility. Please take my comments into consideration and do what is best for retail investors, insiders, and the companies that are listed in the markets. Do not allow those who would prefer to limit, inhibit, or reduce the effectiveness of this proposed rule. Thank you, Sam