October 16, 2021
After reading the proposed change SR-NYSE-2021-60 I am 100 percent opposed to the rule. Our markets (referring to any exchange upon which a retail investor can place an order) are only as free as the lack of a single individual or corporation having control over them. Placing power into a single individual's hands to stop retail investors from freely accessing the market invites serious power abuse and fraud. This is because there is no way that it can be guaranteed that the single individual with power to halt trading will halt it for bona-fide reasons. There is no way to prove to the millions of retail investors in free and public markets that this single individual will not act in favor of large corporations to the detriment of retail investments.
Save us (retail investors) from this farce. It is blatantly obvious to us that this would permit actions not in our favor. Stopping us from investing how and when we want to by halting trading will be a criminal act if performed by a single individual as proposed in this rule.
Thank you for reading.