RE: Restrictions on Leveraged and Inverse ETFs

I do not agree with FINRA's proposed limitations on restricting MY access to leveraged and inverse funds. I am not an accredited investor, but I spend a lot of time studying and learning about market behavior, which has provided me with great insight given my employment in the finance industry. I receive precautionary information from the funds and from my brokerage constantly.

I am opposed to the government restricting my rights to invest my money where I want to. I am aware that I could loose money or could gain money.I would like the opportunity to invest my money as I see fit.

My family and I ought to be able to choose the public investments that are right for us and should be available to all - not just the privileged. Furthermore, we shouldn't have to go through any special process before investing in public securities. We understand leveraged and inverse funds along with the risks but believe that theses are vital to protecting our investments.

Asset classes of any kind should not be restricted to average investors, giving the wealthy advantages and regular people a disadvantage.

Regulators should not tell the public what they can and cannot invest in for any public investment.

Leveraged & inverse funds are critical components in my personal investment strategies. I use many of them in my retirement and non-retirement accounts as part of both timed and non-timed, index building, asset allocation, alpha generation, beta moderation and hedging/risk reduction strategies.

The government including any person working for said government needs to stay out of our private or public trading decisions. Overstepping by making a test for low IQ people is not how you make people feel like they matter. I am the only one that can decide what I want to invest in.
Stop trying to control every person in the US.

I strongly oppose limitations on my investments. It is important that we maintain our current freedom to invest the way we choose. As a former Special Education teacher, my investments are what provide me the ability to live comfortably in retirement. Enough with these evasive regulations.

The existing investment instruction and terms are sufficient. People at legel age are able to consider rationally and independently if they can bear the risks. It is unreasonable to ask people do tests especially there are a large group of people already has experience of investing leveraged and inverse ETF products, not to mention how unfair it is to restrain investment activities by how much assets they have. These restraintions would create no good but annoying investors and waste their time.

This is totally absurd and is a method of increasing the wealth divide in America exponentially. Barring people from investment would be a downright criminal action.

Federal regulators should not interfere with the legal liberties exercised by investors to creatively pursue personal prosperity, using advanced leveraging investing methods. Investors must be allowed to learn and explore the best ways of investing suited to their own chosen risk levels. Each adult citizen should be considered mature enough to make their own decisions and bear the consequences of those decisions.