What FINRA is proposing is class discrimination. You want only the privileged and wealthy to have access to income earning instruments, while the “little” guy/gal is being stripped of their ability to access the same instruments the wealthy have to build wealth. I welcome more education on these products, but NOT bans. Honestly, every so called financial advisor has only tried to scam me. I have yet to see any returns on investments made by financial advisors. On the other hand, I was able to grow my wealth on my own by accessing crypto, options, ETF-s, etc.

Don't restrict the use of inverse funds. They have been helpful to me to hedge risk.

Hello Please do not restrict trading in these etfs. All rules and regulations are quite clear in terms of risks. Amar

As an individual investor, I should be able to evaluate risk and choose the investment/trading options which I believe is best. All investment options should be available to individual investors, not just accredited investors. Individual investors are fully capable of understanding leveraged and inverse funds and properly evaluating their risks. Inverse funds and leveraged funds are and important part of a balance portfolio under certain market conditions to hedge other investments and to realize gains even when markets are being marked down.

Unless these funds are fraudulent or engaged in illegal activity, investment decisions should be left to the individual and not officious government bureaucrats claiming to know better, but rarely do.

Dear Sir / Madam,

I consider it my right to invest my earned funds exactly as I prefer. Ive worked hard to earn these funds and take exceptional care before placing any cash into a particular investment.
The idea that Im intelligent enough to have excess cash to invest but not intelligent enough to invest that excess cash is reprehensible to me.
My wife and I review our portfolio positions on a regular basis and pick positions which we anticipate will enhance and or hedge other positions in our accounts.

I oppose restrictions to my right to invest

Regulations that impede my investing strategies and choices (imposed by bureaucrats who enhance their wealth by the same strategies) are unethical. We live in a digital age where information and learning is rapid and exponential. To assume that most everyone except politicians and elite wealth classes are incapable of investing with leverage is pompous and sorely mistaken. Let free people live freely!

Before buying these products, my brokerage house qualified me and informed me these products were for knowledgeable investors. That is all the regulation we should need.

I very rarely use leveraged or inverse funds. I do not want to lose the freedom to do so. People will always find a way to shoot themselves in the foot.