Helen Steele Comment On Regulatory Notice 22-08
Please do not restrict the public's right to buy shares of stock and/or crypto. Every one, even small investors should have the right to buy and possibly improve their life standing.
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Please do not restrict the public's right to buy shares of stock and/or crypto. Every one, even small investors should have the right to buy and possibly improve their life standing.
I should be able to place my money that I worked for where I want it to.America is not supposed to be a nation where the government tells me what to do with my money - if the is is passed Americans are losing a ton of their hard fought for rights- as a vet I would be very regretful that I spent my youth fighting in Iraq for my freedom only to have it slow stripped away
These inverse ETF give a small investor the ability to hedge against The Federal Reserve and US Government insane economic policies. Leave them alone and leave all markets alone. Your regulations are helping to ruin our economy.
this is too restrictive. People can be responsible investors without another bureaucracy that will allow only the upper 1 % to benefit
I am opposed to FINRA restricting my ability as a private citizen to purchase securities that are currently available and may continue to be available to institutions. I doubt the funds would go away they would just be blocked for retail and available for insiders once again tipping the scales in favor of the market makers. These funds help to take positions without using margin or assuming unlimited losses on a short position. The inverse and leveraged funds really aren't "complex" at all they just have larger swings based on leverage.
As an individual investor, with limited capital at hand, leveraged ETFs provide great and easy opportunities for me to grow my investment. We understand the risk comes with it and simple stop loss/capital management strategy keeps me away from large capital loss. So I strongly expect these investment tools to be still available to us.
I should have a right to invest my hard earned money were i choose invest it. I don't get hand outs like government hand outs or state hand outs. I work hard for my money. I don't lie on the couch and wait for my next tax paying hand out. So i should be aloud to invest my money not the governments money where i want to invest it.
You are not doing this to help us! You are doing this to paralyze us. If you really cared about fairness you would prosecute the short sellers and synthetic share creators. Let us invest how we like.
Leverage is inherent in a large and growing segment of financial trading. I.e. options of all stripes and color - To penalize leverage funds is arbitrary and unfair as this is selective enforcement Tom DiMayo