It has come to our attention that under the regulations being considered by FINRA I may not be able to buy leveraged and inverse funds like TQQQ, SQQQ and others. I would like yo urge you to NOT implement these regulations. These funds are important to my and my husbands investment strategies and restricting these funds will hurt both us and others we have encouraged over the years to use to enhance returns. I believe that people putting their money in the stock market, no matter what fund or stock it is in, understand the risks, as well as the possible rewards.

I think I should have the freedom to choose the public investments that are right for me. I believe the regulators should not put restrictions on public investments.

By investing in leveraged funds like TQQQ, I could put a little amount of money at risk and if it works out I can have an outsized gain. Again, I could put all my money on other individual stocks like Netflix, Palantir, or medical marijuana and lost just as much with no upside in sight. In other word, I think individual stocks by themselves are riskier than leveraged funds like TQQQ.

Give your standard disclosures. Bring back the short sale rule! Keep the auto close for severe drops on the indexes. Go after the cook the book companies, and the insider trading crooks but do not deny the independent traders,investors or institutional financial firms the ability to hedge or out gain the standard index. The great thing about the United States is that one can take risk to possibly make a nice reward. That is not case in many countries around the world.I respect FINRA - your task is difficult but do not let politics decide on who may invest in this or that.

I believe I can trust myself and my financial advisor in making all my investment decisions.

Please do not do this. You may believe youre helping the average investor but youre in fact harming them. This action would take away yet another investment/trading option available to the commoner. The wealthy have a multitude of investments options available to them that lower networth people simply cannot access. Leveraged funds specifically allow the clean utilization of highly technical strategies to gain an upper hand and inverse trading instruments allow the common investor to simulate shorting stocks without the unlimited downside potential.

It is up to the individual to manage their risk. The regulation of publicly traded ETF is simply arrogant. Also, limiting leveraged ETFs will only push traders to more risky option contracts. It seems that the requirements to trade leveraged ETFs favors the rich and powerful and limits the capability of the retail trader...unbelievable.

Inverse Leveraged ETFs are a good way to hedge fixed income investments. I invested in the TBT leveraged ETF to offset losses in my bond investments due to interest rate hikes. Why should I lose my right to invest in a product that protects the value of my investments simply because some investors are too stupid to understand the product they are buying.

Certified Financial Planner and Retirement Income Certified Professional here: These new proposals are another failed attempt to regulate the finance industry. At this point it is almost comical that all of the proposed and enacted regulations are obviously meant to hurt the average Joe, while allowing big players to continue to profit and manipulate the system.

I use leveraged ETF's to meet my stock market % goal, while tying up less of my capital. I can therefore generate greater income by having more capital for income oriented investments. I understand the risks and use them appropriately.

This is not something that should be regulated. Ensure that people understand the risks of these investments, but prohibiting their use is not something I will condone.