Oct. 11, 2022
As a retail investor, i support the idea of transaction by transaction reporting at 15 minute intervals. The current short reporting schedule is so far delayed out that it doesn’t benefit retail investors at all when the data is published. Such a big lag in reporting creates opportunities for nefarious actors to manipulate markets around the reporting timeframe and get improper information out to the public for their own benefit. Retail investors are hampered in that the stale data does not provide a true picture of the short activity tied to a stock. Instead, the published stale data may actually cause retail to make incorrect decisions and lose money. Please make transaction by transaction reporting mandatory so the information can be disseminated to the retail investor community, and will aid in their investment decisions.