Individual investors should be the decision makers on where to invest, it is a cornerstone right; institutional investors have access to a variety of market investments and individual holders should have the choices and decide where to invest

You have no idea how your regulation will close off the ability of small investors to grow their investments to retire in a better space. Why you favor Wall Street and not Main Street, I don't understand. Public traded investments should be available to all of the people, not just the already rich billionaires.

Declaration of Independence was established are right to, Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Investing is my way to pursue the American dream!

Picking and choosing who can invest in "complex" investment products is class warfare. If a product is a legal investment vehicle, everyone with the wherewithal to buy or sell it should be able to do so. Please do not limit access to investments like TQQQ, SPLX and the like.

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.