As an experienced and knowledgeable individual investor, I strongly oppose any restrictions for the adult investors to invest in public investments including but not limited to stock options, leverage and inverse fund. The adult investors themselves instead of FINRA or another people shall select and decide the type of the public investments to the best of their interest and investment goals.
Investing in any security is complex. There are individual securities that are of much higher risk than the leveraged securities. The leveraged securities are offered generally for indices which consists of tens of hundreds of individual stocks. In the absence of leveraged securities investors will go into margins which is equally risky. Investor education will certainly help but it should
These regulations will more broadly effect individual investors and again give more advantage to institutions which already have significant advantages in the market. It is my decision if I wish to invest in leveraged stocks. You can help educate individuals but to take their decision making away from them is unlawful, Especially when my right to invest is not imposing on the rights of other
To regulate L&I index funds is a grossly misguided decision. If FINRA seeks to protect investors from complex products, they should instead go after options, derivatives, short-selling, and other truly complicated financial practices. L&I funds are traded by average retail investors like me in the same manner that stocks are traded; they are simple to understand and necessary to
I see no reason to regulate what a person decides to do with their money. The government doesn't appear to have any restrictions on it's ability to manipulate the market on a daily basis as it does. The craps table isn't restricted or any other game in the betting business. Margin is allowed, shorting is allowed, and I'm sure there are other things big money is allowed to do.
Dear FINRA Regulators, I AM OPPOSED TO RESTRICTIONS ON MY RIGHT TO INVEST in inverse investments as an individual. It is important that the public at large, and in particular, me and my family, be allowed to invest in inverse ETF's without restriction or further regulatory interference by imposing additional regulations. We, as investors, are in charge of knowing the risks and opportunities
Comments: I've been using Leveraged and Inverse ETFs for a few years now. While there are risks involved, there are risks with investing with Non-Leveraged and Non-Inverse ETFs, and with stocks. Accepting risks is part of investing. Limiting what I can invest in would do more harm than good and limit opportunities in the market. I don't want to see access limited to Leveraged and
I use inverse ETFs to reduce investment risk by hedging my common stock investments. We don't need additional advantages for the privileged, such as limiting access to these investments. I understand the risks of adverse ETFs and don't need protection. As for others, they may not understand the risks of investing at any time. Should we restrict them, how? Is there no responsibility for
To whom it may concern, As a new retail investor, I want to see more transparency in our markets. I've learned that big financial institutions are abusing their privileges given to them; most notably their use of dark pools and naked short selling. An effective way to earn back the trust of retail investors is to put these often illegal practices on the forefront so we can find out what is
As a retail investor I would like to see many changes made to the way you gather short position information. I like collecting the information daily and also reporting synthetic shares. It seems to me that the market markers and hedge funds have way too much freedom to do as they see fit with very little oversight and little to no punishment handed out when they are caught in the wrong. Real
