Aug. 13, 2023
To whom it may concern, for many years, I have felt that there was an unknown level playing field between the regular common investor and individuals who have direct information and ability to transact securities. In the past 2+ years it has come to extreme blinding light that the market allows for way too many illegal or manipulated actions or non-enforced rulings. Allowing a hedge fund to not only see all of the order information, and also in enabling them to make moves within the financial system to counter them has become very frustrating and depressing. We are left at the whim of people with money and power to manipulate and to bake in fines to their financial models and still come out ahead. Allowing them to manipulate stocks with the use of swaps, or numerous open days and high volumes of FTDs is unconscionable and an unbalanced market factor against the common person in the United States. We are not seeking minimal fines to these institutions that do these types of things, but we are seeking a fair market for all. Please, please approve this ruling for the fairness of all the US residents and others outside the US, who invest for the good of their future and not the greed and power of themselves. Thank you.