These are very useful tools when used properly

Thank you for your concern for the small investor. Many of us see the investments you are considering for additional regulations and restrictions to be a legitimate means of protecting our hard earned wealth. Life itself is risky. Please consider the impact your decisions will have on those choosing to use these products.

Do not restrict my personal right to choose which investments I place my capital in. My rights to Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness carry with it the freedom to choose as I see fit and accept the responsibility of the consequences of those choices. Restricting certain investments to the wealthy and connected elite of our country will only exacerbate the income gap. I use these leveraged funds as a limited part of my total investment strategy and am well aware of the risks involved. I fully understand and assume the responsibility these risks incur.

I use leveraged and non-traditional investments to diversify and take measured risks in my portfolio. Individual investors are only risking their own funds. Individual investors have never posed a structural risk to the economy. No broker is pushing non-traditional or leveraged investments onto their customers, so the only people using them are those that have made the decision of their own will.

Leave our investment options up to us....we do not need big brother to tell us what to do. unbelievable, this is supposed to be the county of the free!

Please don't impose any additional regulation on leveraged an inverse funds. I use these to increase my returns and would not want to lose access to these products. I have multiple brokerage accounts, 401ks, and ROTH IRAs, and even over long periods of years, I have grown the portfolios that use leveraged funds more than the funds using traditional investment vehicles.

I don't like regulators interfering with my investment decisions. is your test so you can steal my profitable market timing strategy? I use leveraged long and short funds. Leave them alone.

The Gov't has no right what so ever to tell any adult how they can invest/spend their money. A blatant overreach of Federal Authority. This must not pass by any means.

I should be able to invest leveraged or inverse funds freely without any restrictions. I am aware of these funds have high risk but I am responsible for what I chose to invest in.

I am an individual investor and object to any restrictions to my ability to trade as I see fit especially limiting or eliminating my ability to trade inverse and leveraged funds. I have been using these judiciously for years in order to protect my investments from significant loses or to improve my gains. Please leave me alone. Thanks for reading this.