I support greater regulation and restrictions on retail investment in complexed investment vehicles. Whether it's FINRA, SEC or some other SRO, I think it would be helpful if retail investors were required to undergo some sort of certification or training process to verify their understanding of the risk involved with trading risky assets.
If I had to choose which instruments would
The rules SEC, DTCC,NSCC and all regulators institutions had been promoting should be activated and complied. The naked short sales is illegal so that is a criminal act. As criminal act must be punished with severe penalties not just with a few dollars. If a common person that works in an financial institution commit a crime by changing few numbers to hide they were doing something wrong that
These leveraged ETFs are less risky than many individual stocks that are available to anyone. They are predictable- ie 2X or 3X. Individual stocks are not! The secret is getting out and the professionals do not want to share.
Dear FINRA,
I have been investing in leveraged stocks for sometime. SSO for example, is my go to stock purchase these days.
Please allow me to invest as I see fit.
Thank you!
There are many individual stocks which have been and continue to be more volatile then leveraged stocks.Are you going to regulate them as well. leveraged stocks are safer than borrowing on margin. That is a fact.
Im the investor I should be allowed to trade Proshare like the big stock firms, if the stock market allowed the mutual funds company traded theses Proshare and the individual investors should be allowed.
I wish to have the right to pick stocks as I wish, Government should not control how I opt to use my money in the stock market. Just another way to take control of peoples lives.
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Please do not been leverage GTS there are great investment for the right people that know what theyre about I believe short selling should be banned in and option should be banned because people that go against leverage dont realize theyre going to get margin called and then they called a broker complaining meanwhile they said they knew what they were talking about and I think it should be maybe
The rules of Finra need to be changed. They may have been created to help reduce the predatory practices of unscrupulous brokers and protect individuals from such practices, and there may be a need to protect individuals from themselves, but we each bear the responsibility of knowing what we are doing at any given time. I have traded stocks, options, futures and forex. It is a lifelong process,
