Please let investors choose the option to invest or not and dont impose restrictions upon retail like this.

This is a good plan, the financial service industry has been playing with a loaded deck for years now. Its time for the regulatory bodies of the government to rein in the reckless and border line illegal behavior.

I am appalled that you would consider removing something from the common person to help them in down times.... something that is available to your rich friends. It's defined loss the same as any other long position. Take your hands off my investments and my future!

Remember Dodd-Frank? It made one of the safest trading methods illegal - hedging. Obviously, they never spoke to a trader. Just because someone can regulate, doesn't make them smart enough to do it. Hands off my trades.

These leveraged and inverse funds are helping me build wealth, particularly for retirement. Taking away these types of investment products would make it more difficult for me to have enough money in retirement.

Dont create barriers for common man to invest in advance techniques.

Do not implement this regulation. The federal government never properly evaluates unintended consequences. Stop treating the general population as though they cannot read and understand. Let me invest the way I want to invest. I have been trying to get treasury bonds out of the treasury for eight weeks and cannot even get through on a phone. The federal government is beyond incompetent. What makes you thing you know anything much less what is best for my investing. I run sophisticated software which blends in my triplets with the base stocks and it work fantastic. Leave me along!!!!!

This proposed regulation only inhibits free markets. Short selling or inverse ETFs were banned back in the 2008 collapse and simply equated to a rigged market. Why don't you regulate the purchase of long position shares when the market goes up too quickly? The only throttle considered is on the down side, which could be used to hedge other positions and/or anticipate and profit from downturns. It appears that the proposal will only allow the big money players to capitalize and keep the small to medium investors out of the markets.

All Americans have the right and freedom to choose what to do with their own money. Trying to regulate how Americans can spend or invest their money is purely UNAMERICAN!

I use leverage investments to provide added income for my family. I use it responsibly without margin and limit my exposure to a very small percentage of my portfolio.

I would be fine if there are more restrictions that include knowledge base learning tools and accepting the added risk characteristics that are involved with such investments. I do not feel it is necessary to take them away as a useful tool for experienced investors.