To pass this regulation and eliminate certain investment vehicles, such as leveraged vehicles or the ability to go short on certain vehicles, implies several onerous things. Such as attempted regulatory manipulation of the market in one direction and secondly an insult to the intelligence of certain investors.
Why should vehicles that go short be more risky than vehicles that go long ?
Such laws more readily reflect and attempt to manipulate a market than protection of the investor!

Please please please FINRA, please do not restrict me and my family from investing in leveraged and inverse funds. I am now making very nice profits due to these particular stocks / funds. I understand the risk involved and feel I should not have to go through passing a test or any other special process in order to invest in these public securities. They provide me the security with hedging my investments. Forgive me if this sounds dramatic, but I would be devastated if I were disallowed these types of leveraged and inverse funds. Thank you very much for your consideration.

Comments: Leveraged ETF should be on each individual investor's decision with NO . Signing agreement before trade should be good enough for warning. It is each individual's freedom to do or not. DO NOT REGULATE OR LIMIT.

Individual Investors not regulators should be able to choose the public investments that are right for them.
Public investments should be available to all of the PUBLIC, NOT just the privileged!

How about you stop trying to regulate everything as that makes it look like a scam! As investor I oppose this!

Let the public decide what public securities the public wants to invest in.

I would urge you not to place any new restrictions on leveraged ETF products. I am a retail investor and am interested in investing in these products for a small part of my portfolio as part of a high risk / high reward investment. Leveraged strategies have been used by large institutional and high net worth investors for some time and leveraged ETFs democratize access to them. It isn't fair to restrict access to leveraged ETFs while continuing to allow institutions or large individual investors to invest with leverage using other methods.

I understand the complex nature of these investment products. I like how the lower market price of these index price values compared to the S&P market value prices allow for smaller investors to capitalize on S&P 500 market value fluctuation values. We as smaller value investors need the ability to invest in larger markets without restriction.

I am not a professional trader, but as any mom-and-pop trader I know the risks associated with trading inverse and leveraged funds. I don't need any additional regulations as it may only damage the free market.

I have been trading levered products for over 10 years now and hope to be able to have the option of doing so unfettered by unnecessary restrictions/regulations in the future.
While I agree that there are investors/traders in the market that use these instruments that are not fully aware of what they really are, the same can absolutely be said about every other ETF type products available on the market today as well as individual stocks by the way to a lesser degree. And since many traders - retail and larger investors alike - trade on margin, the leverage effect is the same.