While I understand the desire to ensure a safer environment for retail investors, that effort should be limited to what is clearly predatory or fraudulent. Leveraged products are key to many effective risk management strategies which would otherwise require the use of options (significantly more complex) or margin (significantly riskier), both of which are easily accessible to retail investors without much more protection than forcing their acceptance of a warning that those represent additional risks.

FINRA's proposed strangulation is equivalent to banning short sales. Martin Armstrong adamantly defends short sellers because it is they (us) who buy when panic selling has taken over. The proposed controls of levered ETFs/ETNs protect the markets by providing access to retail investors to short selling and without margin entanglements.

Tired of the [REDACTED] Let everyone invest

I am an educated adult American citizen. I am fully capable of making my own decisions on what security to invest in, including leveraged and inverse funds. In fact inverse funds specifically allow me to increase my capital in down markets instead of just sitting on the sidelines. I dont need or want a government or quasi government agency telling me what I can invest in, or reserving inverse and leveraged funds only for the wealthy elite.

Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my
investment strategies to enhanced returns, so the restrictions should not be put in place for my right to invest in these funds.

I wholly and completely oppose any and all regulation that will take away from my ability to manage my finances in a manner that is appropriate to my level of comfort concerning risk and returns. Retail investors do not need to be saved from themselves. The proposed rules being considered are a simple tactic aiming to keep the rich, rich and the the poor, poor.

These products actually protect investors from the incompetence of the Fed and the majority party currently ruining the US economy.

In brokerage accounts such as TD Ameritrade, we are free to trade stocks and financial instruments such as leveraged and inverse funds without any pressures of dealing with an actual broker. There is no solicitation or advertising on these sites that points us to any particular fund or stock. Please don't restrict this freedom.

I invest in Leveraged ETF Options as a strategy and occasionally in the Leveraged ETF's themselves. I have been doing this for over 15 years. I have achieved a net profit every single year since Ive started using them regardless of whether the market is up or down. I strongly believe that I should be able to choose the investments that are right for me and that all public investments should be available for me to choose from. I should not have to go through any special process or pass any tests to invest in leveraged or inverse funds.

I found it very alarming to hear that FINRA is considering restricting access to leveraged ETFs. It is very concerning to hear that regulators believe private investors are incapable of understanding the risks associated with a leveraged asset like the ones that I utilize in my investment strategy. These investments undoubtably are more complex than an individual stock, but it is my belief that it is an individuals responsibility and right to assess the risks for themselves before investing their money in any asset including leveraged etfs.