I cannot believe in the United States that we would be limited in what we can invest in the stock market. I could believe it if it was Russia but it's not. I have an MBA an engineering degree, a pilot's license and I'm scuba certified. I think I'm smart enough and I should be able to invest my own money the way I want it to be invested
I have a small portfolio of buy and hold individual stocks and bond funds. To balance my market risk, I always keep several investments that tend to move opposite of the general market. I strenuously object to any government action to remove my ability to protect my investment in a down market without selling my portfolio
Individual private investors should have the right to invest unhindered in inverse and leveraged stock index funds. These funds facilitate methods of trading that can be used to manage market risk, and are easier to trade than options. Investors should have this method available for investing. Please do not restrict investors access to these types of funds.
Over regulation is hurting not only Stock Brokers ,it is hurting Insurance Agents as well. Regulators should not be able to kill an industry just so they can justify their jobs. With Fixed Index Annuities the suitability forms and requirements are beyond reason, and have killed millions of dollars worth of sales, and hurt millions of agents and potential customers.
I am a Registered Nurse with no formal financial/stock education. I however can do my own due diligence when it comes to what stocks I decide to buy and invest in. The inverse/leveraged ETFs allow me to easily diversify and lower my overall risks. STAY OUT OF MY ACCOUNTS AND FOCUSE YOUR TIME ON SOMETHING USEFUL!
Since the stack market is meant to operate on the principals of supply a demand. I believe that synthetic share creation through naked short selling or naked options needs technical controls enacted to prevent. Policy controls appear to be largely ineffective give the number of cases for violations listed on SEC.GOV. Given we can buy and sell shares and options why isn’t there simply an exchange
By Robert Cook, President and CEO, and Greg Ruppert, Executive Vice President, Member Supervision, FINRA. From 2021 to 2024, the SEC brought enforcement actions against numerous FINRA member firms for recordkeeping violations involving off-channel communications (OCCs) and settled them on substantially similar terms. In January 2025, the SEC brought additional OCC-related actions against other member firms but settled these on significantly less burdensome terms. A group of firms settling before 2025 petitioned the SEC to modify their settlements to align with the January firm settlements. The SEC recently denied this petition.
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Effective with the October 3, 2011 OATS Release, the OATS Rules will require member firms to report to FINRA order information for all NMS stocks and OTC equity securities. Initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary offerings, Direct Participation Programs (DPPs), "restricted securities", as defined by SEC Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act of 1933, and any securities designated in the PORTAL Market are not reportable to OATS.
