Subject: S7-18-21: WebForm Comments from Nicholas Porto
From: Nicholas Porto
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Oct. 08, 2022



October 8, 2022

 I believe that short sellers are not investors but the opposite. This rule would allow greater transparency which is never a bad thing in the free market and allow families and companies hurting  predatory short sellers a better chance to defend their investments. The scale of the market is so large you should take advantage of this new phenomenon to allow individual investors the opportunity to be free effective watchdogs and help catch illegal practices. Many companies in the past have been put out of business due to predatory short selling and if they had more transparency they may have been able to stop this bankrupting of America