I believe that people should have the right to make mistakes, no matter how stupid. I don't believe any government should interfere with that right, absent fraud. As long as the information is readily available to make informed investment decisions, it's the individual's right to make decisions. People who buy these products are typically more sophisticated than those buying lottery tickets. The Lottery is more heinous than buying complex investment products because it is so regressive and hurts the most vulnerable.

I 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 you can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. I am capable of understanding leveraged and inverse funds and their risks. I do not need these measures imposed on me. Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment strategies.

I am a retired invidual small investor. Please do not impose restrictions on an individuals ability to purchase and sell inverse and leveraged funds. These funds can play an important part of an investment portfolio and are an important tool to utilize for hedging investments during times of market uncertainty.

I have been a market professional for over 50 years, now retired). I advocate free use of levered and short (INVERSE) instruments as they offer hedging and leverage opportunities to every investor. This is needed in these volatile markets. The public are taught "never to sell" and yet we have seen several peiods in recent decades of index declines of 60+% (Nasdaq). It is vitally important that investors be able to effectively hedge with a simple instrument and process. Public warnings and prospectus warnings abound already. If that weren't enough, one mistake is enough to teach the unwary.

Don't restrict my investment abilities.

I deserve the right and ability to choose my own Investments, along with the level of risk that I wish to take. I understand the risks involved with leveraged and inverse products and I wish to use them from time to time to supplement my portfolio. Such products should not be reserved for the privileged few or the rich.

I oppose this legislation. Individual investors should be able to choose the publi investments that are right for my family. We should not have to be subject to any special process like passing a test before you can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment strategies and work very well to hedge my other investments.

Regulators should not be able to limit the public investment options my family uses to limit our exposure to the volatility of public trading markets. Leveraged and inverse investments are an important tool in helping us to accomplish this goal.

I should have the right to invest in public traded leveraged and inverse these investments should not be for the privileged nor should I have to go thru a special process. I am a trained electrical engineer and quite capable of understanding these instruments. With these types of investments, it does not require me to tie up large sums of money and allows me to hedge against corrections and bear markets.

I absolutely oppose the new restrictions proposed in SEC Rule S7-24-15. This is another example of government over-reach. Stop it. Now! Let all the little guys in this country continue to do what has made this country the greatest free market in the world!