Michael Trigueiro Comment On Regulatory Notice 22-08
I should be able to make my own investments without being told what I can invest in and what I can't, this is a free country and we choose to not be told or restricted from making investments.
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I should be able to make my own investments without being told what I can invest in and what I can't, this is a free country and we choose to not be told or restricted from making investments.
What a ridiculous idea to think you have the right to tell me what I can invest in!
Just who the heck appointed you to decide what risks I take with my money and my investments? Stand down and let people be free to decide for themselves all things in their private lives and go be a Karen to your neighbors or something. Nuff said, you get the point!
This notice is overly broad and would potentially exclude low net worth investors from having access to complex products. Implementation would be a burden on everyone involved and frankly is a solution in search of a problem.
A person has the right to choose what they want to invest and is entitled to their privacy on their investments to provide for their future when they retire.
I oppose restrictions to my right to invest in public investments. I not regulators should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me and my family. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged. I shouldn't have to go through any special process like passing a test before I can invest in public securities, including cryptocurrency funds such as BITO. I am fully capable of understanding cryptocurrency funds such as BITO and their risks and do not need these measures imposed on me.
I oppose restrictions to my right to invest. Here are why: - Every investor should have the freedom of accessing the entirety of the public securities markets, not just certain stocks. - The new potential regulations will only create obstacles for investors to invest. They will no doubt create confusion with what public securities they can and cannot invest in. - As adults, we all know that it is risky to invest any public securities, not just the leveraged and inverse funds.
Leave our investments alone. I am retired and not going back to work. I have worked a long time to be where I am and government has been trying to destroy that. Cut spending and waste. Cut your own salary.
Access to investment opportunities should not just be for hedge funds and the wealthy. Inverse and leveraged funds allow the common investor to protect longer term positions against losses from events like inflation and interest rate fluctuations. Securities often react stronger than the underlying index, thus only a leveraged position will make a substantial difference.
Allow everyone to invest, you do not need to see everything through one looking glass