Leverage ETFs and Inverse investments have been a component of my investment strategy for years. Regulatory scrutiny should be focused on accurate reporting rather than limiting certain types of investments. Security valuations have always been driven by reasoned expectations of future cash flows. Let the investor take the risks he or she chooses including market hedging devises as mentioned above.

I use leveraged and inverse funds to enhance and hedge my portfolio of investments. These leveraged and inverse funds are a limited, but important part of my investment and investors like me should be allowed to use them regardless of their net worth. I understand the risks of these investments and should have the ability to use them.

I shouldn't have to go through any special process like passing a test before I can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. I am capable of understanding leveraged and inverse funds and their risks. I do not need these measures imposed on me.

I am a small investor. In this market, buying ETF's has enabled me to limit my losses. Leave ProShares ETF's alone .... it is not broken.

There should be no restrictions on leverage ETF's. They serve a useful purpose.

I think it makes trading not fair and leveled for all people, if you limit trading leveraged etf, for having a certain amount of money and needing cooling time,

Warnings that we accept should be enough for ppl to know the risks.

And most ppl learn stocks from their own unofficial sources and making official curriculum, will make it hard for people with other jobs to invest in stocks

investing in these funds has been allowed to everyone for years and there is no reason to change now. this is a free market and since these funds have been approved to be trading on the exchanges they must continue to be allowed to be traded by everyone. Leveraged and inverse funds function like option trading and there is no restriction on options or margin trading.

it is completely unreasonable to limit profiting strategies to only those with significant amounts to leverage. It completely unbalances individual investors to leave them punished.

You seem to be planning to go far beyond any legitimate mandate. Your role should be to make sure investors are adequately informed of the risks of leverage . Make the management pepper their ads, reports etc with as many dire warnings as you like, but kindly allow investors to manage their own risk tolerance. Being a watchguard for investors is not the same as being our mommy.
Roger H. Kaye, MD, JD, MBA, LLM

I am 83 yrs. old and live on social security and a 700.00 pension. If I lose the rights to invest in the types of funds then there is no way I can survive the inflation. I an a very small investor and have planned so in can survive but if you eliminate these in verse funds I will probably be on welfare in the near future. These are the only way some of us have to survive. Besides not everyone that does this makes any money from it.