Eliminating the leveraged ETFs from the choices of investment vehicles is the wrong decision. If the leveraged ETFs are volatile, how about the individual securities, mutual funds, and options. Every investment tools in the stock market involve some degree of volatility and risk, even crossing the street in daily life has some degree of risk. Are we going to eliminate options because they include a high risk? The SEC proposed regulation of removing the leveraged ETFs from small investors is a bad regulation. IT IS PULLING THE CARPET UNDER OUR FEET.

Fair Investment Opportunities should be allowed by All People. Not just for the Wealthy

You have no right to choose where I spend my hard earned money. Next it will be telling us what kinds of food we're allowed to buy. It's an affront to everything our founding fathers stood for.

What are you crazy! We need the small guys.

Comments: I think leveraged and inverse ETFs should be available to retail investors. They give access to the ability to hedge and provide more liquidity then options. They are much safer then options as well. Disclaimers on these instruments make sense but I think it is a disservice to limit access to these items for everyday retail investors.

I use leveraged and inverse funds regularly in my investment strategy. They are an integral part of my portfolio. I am fully capable of understanding all the risks associated with these funds and have knowingly chosen to include them in my portfolio after analyzing those risks. The brokerage firms already require signed documents in order to trade these instruments and they also give warnings before initiating trades.

Why do you want to make it even harder to grow wealth in this country?

I OPPOSE RESTRICTIONS TO MY RIGHT TO INVEST

Dear Friends, I have been investing since I was 17 years old, beginning with US Savings Bonds. With time, various employment, and higher wages, my investment strategies obviously changed from those beginnings. I now have a very diversified portfolio, which includes investments in ProShares. The recent news concerning potential regulatory changes is distressing. I do not agree with potential limitations to my ability to invest as I choose.

I OPPOSE RESTRICTIONS TO MY RIGHT TO INVEST