I am a retail investor and use leveraged ETFs for a portion of my portfolio. Before buying these leveraged ETFs, I did a significant amount of research to understand the risks. This included back testing how the funds would behave in different market and monetary conditions. I also read the prospectuses for the funds. All this information was available and provided sufficient information on the risks associated with such products. By the same token, I would personally not touch options as that is beyond my personal risk tolerance. Options trading is commonly known to carry higher risk.

Dollars have no intrinsic value, so if any member of the public wants to gamble with them using what you call 'complex products', this should be entirely possible so as to have a level playing field with wall street. Educational materials are good. Less regulation is better, ending the federal reserve bank would be best.

Taking away the use of leveraged and inverse Etfs or limiting their holding time is unfair to retail investors who rely on these products and approach them with due diligence. Leveraged Etfs are not inherently dangerous. Knives are sharp and hurt like [REDACTED] sometimes but we don't ban them from public use. Let the emphasis be on better education and disclosure, that makes sense. But the harm these products are capable of will never obscure the fact that there's an army of retail investors using these leveraged Etfs responsibly, everyday, with good success.