I have used leverage funds over the past fifteen years. They are integral part of my investment strategy, one that has allowed me to retire early. This constituent a limited portion of my portfolio but have allowed enhanced returns. This would not be possible has I not been able to use leverage funds earlier in my investment experience or with a smaller portfolio balance. There is ample information available relative to the risks for this class of funds, additional hurdles or limited access is not required.

As a retail investor, I do meticulous research on the financial health of companies I invest in, and do quite a bit of work to justify adopting a particular strategy or level of financial risk. Closing off inflows of retail investment dollars damages me, and my investments, regardless of the intent of the rule

Why Does FINRA need more Power?

I am capable of making my own financial investment decisions together with my Financial Advisor.

This is the USA. and we should be free to risk what we have without more Regulation.

please reject this bill it is not good for the USA & there will be less taxable income when with drew from the IRA, 401k and brokerage accounts.

to darn much gov"t interfvention

I oppose any restrictions on my right to invest. The past few years have shown that many limitations are placed on retail investors which seems to provide unfair advantages to Wall Street. How about doing something that really maters - why is payment for order flow legal in the US?

Why is it that the government thinks they know what's best for me and I don't. In a country that is rapidly losing the basic freedoms promised to us, now you want to take away my financial freedoms. Inverse funds help me protect capital during periods of turmoil, high inflation, geopolitical risks, and government overspending, to name a few. Leveraged funds allow me to hedge my positions quickly, as I did during the pandemic crash and the financial crisis of 2008-09. It is not hard to understand these are short term instruments. I use these tools to hedge my stock positions.

Use your regulatory powers to stop insider trading. Use your regulatory powers to stop inflation. Use your regulatory powers to stop Musk buying Twitter, or other monopolistic situations of which there are many. Stop harassing the small investor. You remind me of the police cracking down on jay-walking. Try to use your powers for something worthwhile, instead of on petty populist actionism like this, pathetic: noone will respect you for it.

I wanted to further add that I do not agree with restrictions being placed that would limit access of public investments to the broad public and give access only to a select group of investors deemed worthy. Personally, I use such products not only as a way to enhance returns that could help secure my financial future, but also as a hedge (risk mitigating measure) to help protect my investments. Losing that ability would handcuff me from these key strategies that I employ within my portfolio.

I do NOT need regulators to protect me from myself! I should be about to choose my own public investments and not have your limitations imposed upon me.

With this regulation you are reducing the size of the market place and creating an unfair advantage to the a chosen portion of the investment community.

I OPPOSE this regulation!!!!!!