I am currently planning my retirement. I use inverse and leverage funds to help build for my retirement. These funds are bought and sold just like stocks and gives people the flexibility to choose how, when, how much etc. to invest based on personal decisions and risk assessment by the individual. Restricting access would be similar to limiting competition and choice. By restricting access, you could be pushing towards an antitrust violation / lawsuit type of situation.

Regulation, in almost every instance of its implementation has never been what it has been sold as. It is almost never to protect investors and almost always serve the self interest of those regulating it like a Trading platform removing a buy button from specific stocks.

There are thousands of sources of information for investors to research and understand these complex inverse ETFS. The only thing complex about them is handled by the company that issues them and not the investor.

As is often the case in government policy, the motivations of this seem good. However, limiting investments until someone has a liquid net worth of 1M or other limit has proven suboptimal. These specialized products are risk management tools - perhaps used to hedge a portfolio without selling and realizing gains, or taking advantage of markets that would otherwise be unavailable without a large futures account.

Dear FINRA,

I have become aware of the unnecessary regulations planned for restricting my access to invest in leveraged and inverse funds. I have been trading inverse and leveraged ETFs for the last four years without any issues. Adding restrictions will stop me from trading and investing in ETFs as well as many other investors that can profit from changes in the market trends.

Dear FINRA regulators,
We believe it is an investors right to freely access the entirety of the public securities markets without any arbitrary restrictions. Any restrictions could potentially deny us the freedom to choose investments that could help us achieve long-term financial security.

Leveraged and inverse ETFs are an important option for individual investors. They are NOT difficult to understand. Individual investors should have access to be able to both attempt to enhance returns and to hedge investments.
Equity investments in general are risk assets and do not have guarantees.

No one should be limited in their investment choices. Please don't pass this controversial bill.

It is unfair to limit access to these investments!

It is our rights to buy or sell all the public traded funds. Every stock or fund traded publicly has its risks and we understand it well. We as small investors shouldn't be discriminated by this restrictions. We need the freedom to decide which stocks or funds we want to buy as they are very important tools to achieve our long-term financial goals.

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