I don't need regulators on telling me what I can or can't invest in.

Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged. Enough regulations!!! You will not! Stop killing our economy!

The common person needs a way to protect themselves. Please don't take it away!

Do not increase the institutions' and high net worth people's advantages over us small individual investors and traders. I hope you aren't trying to sell this as protection for us!. We already have to compete with servers you allow on the trading room floors so that orders we submit will never be the first in queue. Algorithms and super computers already completely dominate individuals. They don't need any more help from you! Don't close off markets from us, in other words. There is plenty of free education about trading and investing online, and the brokerages also make it available.

I use these type of investments as a hedge against falling markets

I oppose any restrictions to my right to invest in public investment.

I should be able to invest in any public company I choose. I certainly dont want the government telling me what I can invest in, or have to be tested to see if my understanding of leveraged and inverse funds. It is imperative to hedge your investments so when the market crashes again I wont be totally broke.

This is government Over-Reach Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms require: I must be able to choose the legal public investments for myself and your family. These public investments must be available to all of the public, not only the privileged. Any special process or test required before investing in public securities violates guaranteed freedoms of speech and association and is only intended as a personal burden. My investment strategies using legal, public, and reported financial instruments is of no concern my government.

I believe it is important for these types of investments remain available for the public to invest in. They act as a great hedge

It's outrageous yet not surprising that regulators would want to prevent ordinary people from being able to invest in inverse funds - right when the market is going bear. In a word it's another attempt at cheating to favor the wealthy over main street by reducing the little guy's ability to have the same opportunities to gain from loss that bigger funds and investors have. Fair play means an even playing field. Public investments should be available to ALL the public.