Oct. 15, 2021
As a retail investor it really hurts to see that my own government would like to halt trading of securities with high volatility and participate in the actions that Robinhood and many other brokers did in February that put the financial futures of many households world wide in duress. Halting trading is not what any of the millions of international retail investors that participate in the NYSE are holding out hope the SEC would regulate, rather we would all hope to see you working towards fighting criminal elements of market makers, and brokerages, and instead you show you don't care about retail whatsoever. Halting trading of securities on the lit exchange instead of shutting down dark pools like you all should have years ago is absolutely disgraceful. If you move on this rulling it only makes clear not only to the American people, but the entire world, who you actually play for. There are millions of people who were hurt and cast into poverty in February of this year simply because trading of certain securities was illegally halted by market makers and brokers. All that this rulling will do is repeat this process and let criminal organizations that trade in dark pools keep getting away with the numerous illegal activities the public already knows about. The SEC is running out of time to come out of this as "good guys", every day of inaction towards illegal naked shorting, dark pool exchanges of naked shorts, and short ladder attacks hurts the public sentiment towards the NYSE but also YOU, the SEC.