February 7, 2022
Please ban dark pools, enforce transparency by short sellers, enforce closing of short positions and ftds, ban PFOF, and just generally make the market free and fair and a level playing field. As I understand the current system I am at a significant disadvantage as a retail investor and the big players (market makers, investment banks, hedge funds, etc) are using a wide assortment of tricks to manipulate stock prices and skim off trades made by little guys like me. If the USA is to maintain its position as the greatest free market in the world it needs to actually be a free market. As all of this manipulation and fraud comes to light the world is quickly losing faith.