Jul. 19, 2023
To whom it may concern, I fully support increasing transparency rules, especially those regarding swaps and derivatives trading, in order to allow for more equality within the market structure for household investors like myself. Derivatives/Swaps were the reason why 2008 was so bad and it only stands to reason that they cannot be allowed to exist without posing a substantial risk to markets as a whole. Furthermore, I reject the notion from others that increasing transparency would be bad for the market as a whole. The only ones who have difficulty making their positions known are those with something to hide. Transactions that affect supply-demand principles or threaten market structure surely cannot be legal. One of the reasons that cryptocurrency is taking the world by storm is the mere fact that all transactions on the blockchain are public. The world sorely needs publicity on these issues in order to build back the trust that has eroded over the years. Jason Torres Household Investor