This is really not going to help individual retail investors. Lots of retail investors would be losing valuable hedging and speculating tools in terms of leveraged and inverse ETF's. Many of these investors may utilize cash accounts and have no other way to go short in the market without buying put options, which is another layer of approval. As such, ETF's are the most accessible and easy to trade and least complex of hedging instruments and to put these kind of access restrictions is mind-boggling.

I oppose restrictions on my right to invest in public investments. The public investments should be available to all of the investors.

I oppose restrictions to my right to invest!

I have managed my investments for over 60 years. I have studied and invested in broad market, leveraged and inverse ETFs for the past 15 years. I use them to manage risk.

The restrictions proposed would reduce the liquidity in these ETFs and render them dangerous to use. Any regulation of these securities should strive to improve openness and knowledge of the products, promote open and liquid markets, and control contra-party stability and risk. Your proposal dose not address any of these issues.

I do not need regulators telling me how to invest my funds nor take a test to prove to them I know what I am doing.

This is America, I earned it, I control it and I invest it the way I see fit.

We are not in Russia. Do not regulate us to death.

A Democrat.

I oppose limitations on your ability to buy the funds

It simply doesn't concern regulators. What are they regulating? Interests they have no interest in? Where we store our value of production shouldn't be up to a regulators judgement. Their judgement and authority is over fiat currency. Once fiat currency is exchanged for a different interest, it is out of their protocols. You are welcome to participate in our interests, yet you are not recognized as one in our governing authority.

I oppose restrictions FINRA wants to impose on public investors. Leveraged & inverse funds are an important part of my portfolio. Having to meet certain criteria to invest in inverse funds restricts my ability to enhance my overall return. Public investments should be available to all, not just a few.

Do not make the USA any more of an oligarchy than it already is. The social contract is in tatters; do not make it worse.

I want the right to make my own investment decisions.