I have invested on my own for for 36 years, doing my own due diligence, reading, and using my informed judgement. People make all types of financial decisions such as career choices, where or whether to purchase a home, what type of healthcare they access, the foods they consume, where they travel, etc.- the list could go on for pages. Any mature adult of sound mind can make financial decisions of varying complexity without testing for this. Do you take a medical literacy test before seeing a physician, an aeronautical engineering test before taking a flight?

I not regulators should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me and my family. You do not know best for others!
Public investments should be available to ALL of the public, not just the privileged.

please allow my own investment decisions to be mine. not Govt goons

Please do not regulate funds that Ive been investing in safely for years. Individual Investors are sophisticated enough To understand the risks associated with all kinds of investments.

Do not restrict my ability to use leveraged ETFs.

I am writing this to let it be known that I should be in charge of my retirement investments not the federal government. I have enough knowledge to make these decisions and dont need to pass a test. Inverse and leveraged funds are important to my investment strategy.

I manage my brokerage and retirement accounts. I make all my own investment decisions and execute all trades. Leveraged and inverse ETFs and ETNs are an important part of my investment strategy. I am 70 and have used these kinds of products for over 10 years. I know the risks and rewards of this type of product and I strongly believe no regulator should be trying to restrict my access to these products.

Stop trying to put so many hurdles in the way of my investing. It's fine to require a disclosure on the part of the broker and an acknowledgment of risk on my part as an investor, but any more than that is just harassment. I'm going to pass all the qualifications you are proposing. I don't need them "protecting" me.

As a small individual investor I use Levered and Inverse-Levered ETFs as part of my hedging strategy when making investments. Without access to these funds I would experience higher costs and considerable difficulty implementing hedging strategies.

I am a long term investor and not a frequent trader. I understand the risks I am taking when I invest in Levered ETFs.

I am capable of understanding the risks inherent to an investment product.

So is this public, this is the crypto age. It isn't like we little people do not know what risk is, and need a paternalistic guiding hand to prevent us from hurting ourselves.

This honestly looks like a bunch of rich old guys cutting the rope ladder to keep everyone else down.

"Leverage for me, but none for thee!"