I strongly oppose limiting investors ability to trade leveraged and inverse funds. These can be great tools of various usages like market timing and hedging.
These funds are probably riskier than their corresponding non-leveraged funds, but there are tons of real stocks that are much more risky than these funds, so why not put limitations on those stocks?
I believe it's investors responsibility to understand investment risk, but it's not fair to blindly take the opportunities/tools away by regulation, which actually gives privileged people more opportunities. It's like to make the rich richer under a nice covering story! A free market shall encourage fair play.
Leveraged funds may be complex from financial engineering's point of view, but I don't have to understand the implementation nitty gritty, instead I just need to know the characteristics of the funds. I use inverse funds to hedge my positions, it's less risky and more convenient than other tools (shorting, buy puts, short futures, etc). Imposing certain measures to obtain the tools is unnecessary and will just make a lot of people lose the tools.
I also use leveraged funds to time the market for short term trading which is more capital efficient. Risk wise it's about the same comparing 100 shares of 3x funds to 300 shares of unleveraged, but use much less capital.
Zongqi Xue Comment On Regulatory Notice 22-08
I strongly oppose limiting investors ability to trade leveraged and inverse funds. These can be great tools of various usages like market timing and hedging.
These funds are probably riskier than their corresponding non-leveraged funds, but there are tons of real stocks that are much more risky than these funds, so why not put limitations on those stocks?
I believe it's investors responsibility to understand investment risk, but it's not fair to blindly take the opportunities/tools away by regulation, which actually gives privileged people more opportunities. It's like to make the rich richer under a nice covering story! A free market shall encourage fair play.
Leveraged funds may be complex from financial engineering's point of view, but I don't have to understand the implementation nitty gritty, instead I just need to know the characteristics of the funds. I use inverse funds to hedge my positions, it's less risky and more convenient than other tools (shorting, buy puts, short futures, etc). Imposing certain measures to obtain the tools is unnecessary and will just make a lot of people lose the tools.
I also use leveraged funds to time the market for short term trading which is more capital efficient. Risk wise it's about the same comparing 100 shares of 3x funds to 300 shares of unleveraged, but use much less capital.