Apr. 20, 2022
To whom it may concern, As an individual retail investor from overseas, it is disheartening to see yet another iteration of a rule abandoned in the past, which virtually allows for perpetual "can-kicking" of FTDs and avails bad actors who employ predatory market practices such as naked short selling. It is utterly regrettable that a public institution who's sworn to protect the interests of investors in the name of a free and equitable market continues to contemplate rules which are conducive to unfairness and a lack of transactional transparency, as well as being overall harmful to retail investors engaged in securities trading, who already operate at a disadvantage compared to institutional players, due to informational asymmetry. I urge the Commission to drop this proposed rule at once and to start upholding the principles which form the basis of its statement mission! Respectfully, D.V.