Joseph Ha Comment On Regulatory Notice 22-08
I oppose to new regulation limiting my freedom to invest in complex products and option
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I oppose to new regulation limiting my freedom to invest in complex products and option
Please do needful to have ability to invest in pro shares
After 40+ years of investing the assets my wife and I own, I think I know what investment products We want to own! I am a VIP investor at Fidelity and buy leveraged and inverse funds. We are aware of the risks, so please don't try "save us" I am reminded of of one of the most "Terrifying" statements any American can hear!! "We're from the Goverment, and We're here to Help!!! We don't need your help in this matter!
This is yet another example in a countless list of rules for thee but not for me. Regulations like these continue to protect the upper class, while keeping the little guy down. Every American should have the same opportunities, not based upon some income threshold. If you truly care about lifting Americans up, as you say you do, you will not pass this legislation.
Dear Regulators, Why are you planning to ban inverse and leveraged funds for ordinary investors? Should the ordinary Americans' money should be dumb money going only one way on a conveyer belt but the hedge fund and Wall Street can benefit from it? This is especially in contract to allowing Ponzi schemes like bitcoin to take retirement funds money. One must be either dishonest or unintelligent to accept this contradiction as fair.
Greetings. It is my right to invest my money how I choose. I am a young person with savings that are currently withering away due to inflation. I cant afford a house either. My only option is to invest, and that is by the design of the US governments programs that cause inflation and disincentivize saving cash. So, some of my money is invested in leveraged funds, and I am doing quite well at choosing these investments. I should not have to be from a wealthy family or pass special tests to keep investing. I oppose restrictions on my right to invest.
I am an educator and will be effected tremendously if I am blocked from using triple leveraged indexes. I am a voter and perfectly capable of understanding the implications and risks that these investment tools entail. The government should not have the power over my financial investment decision making. This tool is an easy and equitable way for those of us who are not Wall Street connected to be able to swing trade, without ourselves delving into the complex options markets.
Please protect my interest in leveraged and inverse funds. Inverse funds do a great deal of good in balancing a portfolio. I hope that future regulation widens access to securities, and does not prohibit access based on income, or net worth. I also hope that public access to investment products continues without the need for special testing or license to buy and sell stock and that public offerings continue to be.
I am an active individual investor, investing my funds in both IRAs and taxable accounts with Charles Schwab brokerage. I use 2X and 3X leveraged ETFs with some frequency to increase the return in both types of accounts. Less frequently, but periodically, I use an inverse fund to effectively short the market when it is in a downdraft phase. I use SH and DUST. Both leveraged and inverse ETFs are useful to me in trading, but they are not dominant in my portfolio. 90% of my investments are in normal 1X long ETFs or individual stocks.
Dont impose regulations for regulations sake. I know what i am doing with inverse funds and should not have my freedoms trampled on because of uneducated people making uneducated decisions. Investing is at our own risk and we should never be utilizing an instrument or asset we dont understand. We alone are responsible for educating ourselves but the extent of the education you are proposing to require is too too much. You will alienate the average investor and support the stereotype that investing is only for the wealthy.