The public should be able to invest in leveraged and inverse funds, since this will permit them to hedge during times of market uncertainty and with future stock market declines. The excesses of the FED and US Government with over $10 Trillion increase in liquidity in the money supply over the past two years will lead to a great recession and major correction in the markets. The SEC proposed rule
For a market to be free and fair all information on a tradeable asset must be disclosed. These updated rules protect all parties but particularly retail investors like myself who do not have access to the same data set as large firms. I support these rule changes, a more transparent market would benefit current investors and protect the confidence of future investors in the US stock market.
Omer Meisel leads FINRA’s National Cause and Financial Crimes Detections Program (NCFC), which includes the National Cause Program (NCP) and Complex Investigations and Intelligence (CII). Mr. Meisel leads teams that conduct investigations and examinations of firms and gather intelligence to detect financial crimes and inform FINRA and firms of emerging threats and risks to the financial industry.
Free markets are the hallmark of a free society. However, freedom is not a privilege of the few or those with a series 62. It is the right of all to invest in those instruments that meet their financial needs including the ability to hedge. Leverage and hedging provide me a way of allocating capital, managing tax burdens, and stabilizing returns. As a data scientist with an MBA in finance,
This proposed regulation only inhibits free markets. Short selling or inverse ETFs were banned back in the 2008 collapse and simply equated to a rigged market. Why don't you regulate the purchase of long position shares when the market goes up too quickly? The only throttle considered is on the down side, which could be used to hedge other positions and/or anticipate and profit from
I completely disagree that regulators should be able to own the right to deny me the ability to use leveraged and inverse funds. I've been trading with these instruments for a decade and they have preserve my capital, and grown my net worth. Without these instruments, I'd be in trouble. These are very important particularly in the market we are in now when I can hedge my
The Tenor of these regulations suggest an attempted manipulation of the market, as for example to always be long and not go short, manipulation more than protection of investors, which is intended purpose of the regulation I presume.
Secondly, to assume that a 2X leveraged investment is too complicated for the average investor to understand is an incomprehensible stand. Is a 2% yield on a
Dear sirs and/or madams:
I am opposed to regulatory restrictions on the purchase of leveraged and/or inverse ETF's and other similar products. Leveraged and most certainly inverse ETF's afford the average investor types of protections to the value of investments not otherwise available. Regulations currently restrict 401Ks from shorting equities. The average 401K investor has no
FINRA Committee: As a working class, Army veteran, society isn't the kindest when it comes to financial growth. Having the ability to invest in leveraged and inverse funds such as UltraPro and UltraPro Short ETF's; gives the average person the same opportunities as folks like yourselves seeking to restrict with arbitrary "poor people" laws. Regulations always favor the wealthy
The government has no reasonable grounds to take this action to decrease the tools available to the average investor for the purposes of 'protecting them' from being able to make their own choices. Inverse and leveraged etfs are specialized and risky tools that nonetheless can be used productively by a skilled retail trader, and more to the point, it should be an individual
