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Robert Gribnau Comment On Regulatory Notice 22-08

To whom it may concern. As a private investor, I should have the ability to choose investments that are right for me, and my family.... not the regulator!

Going through special processes such as a test BEFORE I can invest in public security such as leveraged and inverse funds, is limiting my freedom as an American citizen.

Leveraged and inverse funds are important investment strategies for me and have enabled us to complement out portfolio during both bear and bull markets.

Mark Canfield Comment On Regulatory Notice 22-08

If people are too stupid too understand what they are investing in that is their problem, not the employees of the U.S. tax payers. Regulation should be used only in instances where predatory practices are taking place and can be proven in court. Regulation should not be used because stupid people lost money in risky investments. If you mitigate the risk in this area those stupid people will simply put their money in other high risk schemes that will burn them. Will that mean that you have to then regulate that arena as well? Where does it end?

Sean Reilly Comment On Regulatory Notice 22-08

I have seen countless people, both in my personal life and on the internet, lose money investing in complex financial products they never understood. Many times no explanation at all was available, and there was almost never a test to see if they could understand and retain an explanation if one was provided. I am only in my mid-twenties-- these people are meaningfully worse off for the rest of their lives. Please rein in the sophisticated salesmen of these financial products.