I have been investing for over 50 years and I know what I am doing. Furthermore, I advise several friends and family members on their investments, I understand the risks and the importance of inverse and leveraged holdings. I don't need anyone to tell me what I can and cannot do with my investment funds. I'm hoping to preserve what's left of American freedom for my future.

Please do not carry out your proposed regulations on these funds. They are useful tool for small investors to have access to the markets in the same ways that large banks have investments available to them!

These regulations should be thoroughly thought through and please do not take away and hurt the small investors chance to earn in the same manner as large banks!

I am against restrictions on individuals who want to invest in leveraged ETFS for the following reasons:
1. Certain diversified leveraged ETFs really aren't that much riskier then picking a single stock and have a place in certain portfolios
2. This puts the retail investor at a huge disadvantage and funnels more profit into investment managers pockets.

Investors should be easily able to access inverse securities to protect their investments. Don't bow to powerful financial investment companies in requiring investors to use the option markets to obtain this result.

I often use leveraged and inverse funds to hedge my investments at a cheaper cost/risk than using options. They have been an important part of my portfolio when the markets are facing volatility and have allowed me to not divest from other securities through market uncertainty. I am well aware of the risk involved and how they function. I do not need protection from myself and my investment decisions.

I appose any regulation of hindering the.trading of leveraged and inverse funds.

I oppose restrictions to my RIGHT TO INVEST.

As a small personal investor, having free access to all investment options is important to me! Things like this should not be limited to the large investment firms. That just serves to further divide investors, keeping small investors down, and allowing large firms to have unfair advantages

I disagree with the notion that only high net worth investors should be qualified for leveraged ETF products. While you are seemingly attempting to protect unsophisticated investors from having to deal with losses, you are simultaneously broadly removing investors with a higher risk profile whom understand the risks, from participating. Discrimination masked as protection in other words.

I should be able to choose the public
investments that are right for me and my family.
Public investments should be available to all of the public,
not just the privileged.