There is no credible reason to restrict the sale of leveraged and/or inverse funds to retail investors. I can understand a suitability check to ensure that retail investors have an adequate understanding of these products but eliminating retail access to these products is not the right answer to a problem that has not been clearly articulated.

Let the markets trade organically free of regulation; otherwise, the result will skew the natural cycles of the economy and bring more bad than any good can come of it

I am against this rule, appears to be a way to exclude the little guy investor from making conservative gains during a down economy.

I oppose the restrictions to my personal investments namely, Pro Shares. Do not prohibit my investment. Thank you.

We have had ENOUGH regulation. We do not WANT NOR NEED your "protection" in the form of infringement on our rights. Back off.

There are plenty of warnings regarding the use of leverage with stock market investing. As a manager and individual investor, the disclosure and disclaimer hoops are already plentiful. This issue is less significant than the investor confusion created by dual licensing of brokers as RIA reps and Series 7 agents. The BIC rules didn't reduce the confusion.

I have been investing in leveraged and inverse funds for years without any adverse effects. They are critical to my investing, in both up and down trending markets.

I see no reason to regulate what a person decides to do with their money. The government doesn't appear to have any restrictions on it's ability to manipulate the market on a daily basis as it does. The craps table isn't restricted or any other game in the betting business. Margin is allowed, shorting is allowed, and I'm sure there are other things big money is allowed to do. I use these funds as a hedge to protect my portfolio at a cost I can afford.

It seems to me that we should spend more time educating our country how to invest in general. The majority of the US doesnt understand investing and doesnt save enough for retirement. I would urge the SEC to focus their focus educating and guiding them than creating more hoops for those of us that do we understand how interesting works. Please..

The leveraged and reverse ETF's provide the investor public options to make investment choices with their relevant levels of risks.