February 7, 2022
As a retail investor who has seen and learned first hand the egregious manipulation of our capital markets not only, but especially this year, I fully support this new proposal. More transparency and regulation is needed over short position reporting, security based swap positions, FTDs, hiding said interest through options and the ABILITY to hide or defer these issues through options and ETFs. Through the above mechanisms, internalization and dark pool trading, the markets at this point in time are not free or fair. Price discovery, as it is today, only benefits HFTs and the elite firms/institutions, KNOWINGLY to the detriment of the common investor who, on average, has no idea the way in which theyre being exploited. Highly recommend passing this and continuing to work towards fixing the issues so that not only the 1% benefit.