Aaron Wright Comment On Regulatory Notice 22-08
Comments: I would like full access to ETFs
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Comments: I would like full access to ETFs
I strongly disagree with making it harder to trade complex products, specifically leveraged and inverse funds. If I had to meet similar qualifications and go through much the same processes required for margin and options, then I would be tempted to simply go ahead and sign up for those as well or instead, which would expose me to dramatically higher risks than any ETF. It's quite likely many others would do the same. Meanwhile there will still be stocks where equally devastating losses could and sometimes do occur, so it isn't actually going to protect anyone.
Comments: The removal or increasing the difficulty to of access to these leveraged funds from small traders would in effect force traders into areas which are also very risky? These leverage and inverse funds give great flexibility to hedge ones positions against a portfolio disaster. Self directing ones funds should be an exercise in risk management not risk taking. Thank you
Comments: Do not change anything!
Comments: We individual but educated investors should still have access to leverage and inverse funds and products because (we) educated investors do understand the risks . I do agree with signing the yearly agreement to trade these products but our access should NOT be taken away. Some of us do NOT want to work until we are 90 years old.
Comments:Dear FINRA, I am over 21 and resent your intrusion into my investing life. I make all my own investment decisions and leveraged ETFs are a big part of my life. Mind your own business. I don't tell you what to do and stay [REDACTED] out of mine! Paul R. Hamilton
Comments: Please do not restrict my access or use of leveraged ETFs. During the 2 years of the pandemic when no one in the family had work, trading leveraged ETFs constituted the main source of income to sustain the family. They may be 'complex products' but the ETF company manages the products, not the investor. As long as the risks are understood and investments are closely monitored the complexity of the instruments are someone else's responsibility. During my 15 years of usage of leveraged ETF instruments there has never been the slightest whiff of misfeasance or malfeasance.
If an investor had placed an affordable $10,000 into a 3xQQQ fund in 2000, it would be worth approx. $60,000,000 in 2021.
Comments: I have no immediate issues with investor education, transparency or risk disclosure in consideration of the three evaluation areas for public comment.
For some of us who are young and do not have the financial means to invest meaningfully in the stock market, it is imperative to have access to leverage to smooth out the amount of investable assets throughout our lifetime. If, for example, a recession were to occur shortly before my retirement, when my earnings potential is highest and I likely have the most amount of money invested, I would be very grateful to have used leverage at the beginning of my career to compensate for the little amount of funds I currently have available to me.