Subject: S7-18-21: WebForm Comments from Courtney Soest
From: Courtney Soest
Affiliation: CEO, Dream Capture

Oct. 08, 2022


October 8, 2022

 Transaction by transaction reporting it key to a fair and just market. Every single day Market Makers and Hedge Funds are victimizing working families through corrupt trading practices such as failure to deliver, naked short selling, and cellar boxing companies into oblivion. Companies being victimized by these mechanisms need an ability to defend themselves against these larger entities that act entirely in the dark and manipulate to the point where competition does not exist nor does true price discovery.

The SEC is charged with protection of the investing public, it is time to have that be more than lip service, and instead defend the markets from corruptions, fraud, and theft. Hold the entities corrupting our system accountable for their actions.

-Courtney Soest