Subject: File No. S7-32-10
From: Paul Pathiakis
Affiliation: Retail Investor

February 6, 2022

The most disturbing part in the past is Ms. Hester Peirce voting against retail investors as part of the commission. More transparency is needed in the U.S stock markets to allow a level playing field. At the present time, manipulation through shorting ETFs, swaps, etc and, especially dark pools, should be stopped, controls, and elimination, respectively. True value of stocks is no longer possible due to the bad actors within the system.