Inverse funds are used as a means to hedge investments. There is ample information and training online regarding short ETFs and therefore testing investors is an unnecessary administrative and financial burden. Regulations should not be put imposed on individuals who should have the freedom to manage their own risk.
I am highly opposed to any regulation on leveraged or inverse funds. These are market tool to help public / personal investors perform strategies that can be effective. Please stop shorting billionaires from robbing the middle class instead. That would be so much more helpful!
Regulators need to provide level playing field for trading and investments. so far the it is sided with billionaires and bigtime investors who trade is billions of dollars. to have fair practice buy and sell is required as long and short. people invest based on their belief and not to be forced by anyone.
FINRA, Please consider maintaining leveraged and Inverse funds and ETFs as viable investment tools for retail investors. Proshares and Fidelity always advice about the risk associated on using this products and I am full aware that this are short term investment products and as such they must be monitored frequently.
You are attempting to channel Retail investors into categories in an attempt to regulate their trades. If you would actually regulate the Banks, Brokers and Short Sellers these new regulations against Retail would be unnecessary. It appears that Retail traders have become a threat to your "Status Quo".
We as retail need full transparency on these synthetic short positons. Hedge funds have an unfair advantage over retail to sway a market one way or the other we need a level playing field. thank you.
Please go to daily reporting so we the retail investor can be on a par basis with the big money hedge institutional investors. There is no reason short interest and FTDs can’t be reported and tracked daily with the current technology available.
Yes! Please make these changes for a more fair and visible market. Individual investors are at a disadvantage when this information is withheld. The market should not favor short sellers as it does now. Congratulations on moving to make the changes the market needs!
T+0 reporting of short interest. No using the options chain to push FTD's past the original settlement date. Restrict the use of dark pools to trades larger than %5 of the float. Generally enforce existing rules in good faith.
By reporting FTDs and short positions it would allow for more transparency. It feels as if there are 2 sets of rules. The retail investor does not have all of the information to better equip themselves in their retail strategy. While giving institutions an upper hand.
