To Whom It May Concern:

I oppose adding undo burden on individual investors in relation to inverse and leveraged funds. Current disclosures are quite specific about the risks and intended timeframe of such investments -- almost forbiddingly so. As an individual investor, I have diverged from such guidance, but I feel sufficiently warned.

I oppose any restrictions being made against my option to invest my money how I deem fit.

I want to invest my money in what I feel the best place is for it. I dont want to barred as an individual from investments that a privileged few in the financial industry would still have access to.

Thank you

I support leveraged funds, long and short.

It's unreasonable to tell people they cannot invest as they wish.
Period!!

Equal access to products and services is central to a capitalist economy. Blocking investment vehicles to those on the inside furthers the perception that our financial system is rigged. Blocking a restriction access to these products will only encourage movement of funds offshore and possibly hiding them from regulators. For the sake of the industry and our nation, work to reduce regulations, not impose them.

I believe the limiiting of investment strategies would ultimately hurt retail investors.

Im against these regulations that hurts the ability to freely invest in all kinds of ETFs

I would actually prefer to see increased availability of leveraged and inverse funds. The leverage is comparable to having a margin account while using a cash account. The inverse works the same on shorting without a margin account. The funds hold the margin and manage the margin risks.

My "complication" is futures that move overnight while the funds are unavailable to trade. Could you increase the trading hours of these "derivatives" so to speak?

I use leveraged and inverse funds routinely and have done very well, so long as I hedge leveraged stock funds with leveraged bond funds. Having back-tested rules to guide the balancing is key. Please do not interfere with my attempts to improve my model.