"However, important regulatory concerns arise when investors trade complex products without understanding their unique characteristics and risks." Like the complex derivatives that the large financial institutions created leading up to the Global Financial Crisis and collapse of the housing bubble? Until you remove the ability of institutional investors to be excessively leveraged with margin and create complex risky derivatives in the financial markets, all of your 'protections' for the individual investor cannot be taken seriously.

To FINRA regulators, I've heard that you are considering to potentially deny me the freedom to choose investments that could help me protect my investments no matter what the market conditions are. The ability to purchase hedges allows me to keep my long-term investments intact and if you decide that I don't have the knowledge or skill to use them then perhaps you'd like to tell me how I should invest? There are a number of warnings and disclaimers already made present to me when purchasing any type of asset class and I know it is my responsibility to manage risk.

Please ignore comments solicited by organizations like Let Everyone Invest using ads which use scare tactics and content-free vagueness to drum up what looks like support from folks who don't know better.

I use the leveraged and inverse funds to hedge my portfolio. It is much cheaper buying etf's than buying put optioins.

The SEC needs to back off. The idea that regulators know better than people, and that qualified investors are he only ones who should be able to invest is mentally deficient, asinine, and prideful. This is why the 99% are losing. Qualified investors are all part of the 1%. The sec doesn't hassle them. They win. The rest of america loses. The idea of qualified investors should be made into a thought crime, and anyone who thinks it should lose their position in governance.

Do not pass this ABSURD rule #S7-24-15

Let us decide if these investments are too complicated. thats pretty simple!

I OPPOSE RESTRICTIONS TO MY RIGHT TO INVEST.

I OPPOSE RESTRICTIONS TO MY RIGHT TO INVEST.

Quit inserting yourself in OURli especially STOP TAKING OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS FROM US THE WORKING PEOPLE THAT PAY YOUR BLOATED SALARIES