As an investor these products allow us to hedge our portfolios during market downtrends, which can be an easier and far more cost effective method to shorting stock, while also being less complicated then having to buy puts on an underlying index or security. The leveraged funds allow investors to profit off of bull runs in the market, especially in a time where a standard 10% return on the S&P 500 index is does not generate high enough returns to retire off of.

Dear FINRA regulators,

Investors should have the ability to freely take risks in buying levered ETF's when they deem necessary.

We are investors, we understand the risks of investing. Let the financial market provide products to fit the needs of educated customers. We don't need FINRA to be our mommy or daddy.

Comments: Please do not restrict access to leveraged ETFs. I am an individual investor who makes a profit trading these year after year. It will harm us by taking away options to capitalize on trends.
Thanks

Why is FINRA so [REDACTED] on stacking the deck against retail investors?! Is it because the market is getting ready to crash and only institutional investors are allowed to benefit from it? I have a significant investments in 2 inverse funds and I know the risks. FINRA is not my financial guardian and I do not need any extra regulation imposed on me. This is the second time I've had to speak out against this kind of asinine regulation in the last 6 years.

Please stop shutting down our capitalist system. Do not take away the citizen's right to invest in any fund we wish. I myself am well aware of the risk found in "leveraged and inverse funds" which is why I use it as a hedge against a market downturn, and I only use a small fraction of my portfolio for my inverse funds. I do not need to take a test or exam to prove I know what I am doing. I have been doing it since 2013. The fact that you are trying to keep me out of the funds makes me wonder if a major market downturn is coming. Is it?

[REDACTED] Instead of holding naked short sellers accountable, or exposing crime in dark pools, or punishing the racketeering and fraud running rampant on Wall Street, you [REDACTED] who claim to operate as a regulatory agency have conceived a plot [REDACTED] retail traders instead. Because you [REDACTED] think the little people shouldn't be able to invest in stocks that your supposedly competent market professionals have bet against, and then lost money on. No. [REDACTED] You are doing the opposite of what you're supposed to be doing.

A broadly worded regulation that may impact the availability of many types of securities is not needed. If the concern is high leverage, a regulation restricting securities with greater than 2:1 leverage should be considered.

This is totally unacceptable in country that asserts itself to be free. Just stop you cannot stay in the same place forever, wealth is meant to evolve, we are meant to go thru cycles. You cannot continue to tread water and also claim to support freedom.