Leave it alone. Most of my profitable trades are from these stocks. I am retired and trying keep up. Please.

Im Informed investor and I should be allowed to participate In all structure investments that are offered to the public

Thank you for taking the time to read my concerns. It is important that individual small investors not have their rights of financial self-determination impinged by regulators. All investors need to be allowed equal footing from which to operate. The super-wealthy should not be granted the privilege of having tools available, which protect and hedge other investments that the small investor does not have.

I showed have the freedom to invest in what I want. This would be very un-american if it goes through.

Comments:its my choice to trade any and all securities including leveraged and contra etfs. The information on its risks is widely available and I reviewed it many times. Its my responsibility. I and we do the Due Diligence as long as full disclosure is provided.
Thank you,
Mirek Wachowiak

It is easy to understand that, in the long run, markets go up and that, therefore, an inverse fund that shorts an index is not a profitable long-term investment.
But it is also obvious it can be used to hedge long investments and limit the impact of a catastrophic downturn. And since it is related to an index, it is much less volatile and risky than many individual stocks.
Therefore, I don't see any reason to regulate its use more that that of any regular stock.

I do not have any comment to make on leveraged funds.

I should have the right to invest in any legal investment as long as I know the risk.

Do not, I repeat, do not, take any action that will restrict my ability to own shares in these funds. Investors can and will make educated decisions without your restrictions. Don't take that right away from us.

Having testing standards for investments such as these is overreach to individual's rights to do as they see with their money. FINRA should consider doing EVERYTHING possible to make it easier for everyone TO invest, and not work to limit options or create testing strategies for participation. Ultimately - that provides less equality - and not more.

We should have the right to pick any investment and risk we want. Please stop interfering with our rights. Thank you,