I find the very premise that in the largest capital market system in the world, there are regulators that are attempting to not allow inverse or leveraged ETFs. To say this is disingenuous would be taking it easy. Lazy is another word. Brokers, and financial advisors exist for reason as does compliance departments. The reality is the average investor is not going to know how to short or buy
I am an individual retired investor. I have been using inverse and leveraged ETFs and ETNs with very favorable results for several years and do not think that the proposed restrictions are necessary nor advisable.
I have found them very useful and profitable to use and understand the complications and dangers well I think. They are not that complicated to understand.
Possibly for unusual things
Comments: I am so angry that I am beside myself! So let me get this straight. My Federal Government over stimulated the US Economy to buy votes with poor folks and is determined to double down with "Build Back Better" but they do not want me to say NO! or sell SHORT! In that they are wrong, and I could make a lot of money on their stupidity. Credentials: 1. Florida State University
Comments: inverse ETFs: investors with small accounts and limited knowledge or no access to options have no way to hedge their position without inverse ETFs. Putting small retail at that kind of disadvantage exposes them to more risk and potential losses. It forces them into trying to time getting out of the market, and/or taking gains in the short term bracket instead of holding and hedging and
Comments: My broker already gives proper warning and reviews request to access these types of trades. Retail, new, and small investors are already at a disadvantage in todays market that allows high net worth entities access to trading outside regular market hours and through AI driven trades that give them a leg up when new information is presented to the public. Adding more restrictions or
Banning retail investors from trading certain instruments is like like throwing an abuse victim in jail to protect them from their abuser. The only reason that this instrument performed so poorly over the last 2 years was the excess liquidity in the markets, and the pump and dump scams often indoctrinated into CNBC viewers. Over the year or so, we’ve witnessed the collapse of Melvin Capital,
Dear FINRA. I am an individual investor writing to ask that you not regulate, restrict, or in any way make more complex the task of investing in leveraged or inverse funds. The markets are a two way street. It is important to be able to manage one's money on both the long and short side. Beware unintended consequences of your decisions. Restricting individual investors from carefully
(a) For purposes of applying any provision of the Rule 7600A Series that reflects a charge assessed, or credit provided, by the FINRA/Nasdaq Trade Reporting Facility, a member may request that the FINRA/Nasdaq Trade Reporting Facility aggregate its activity with the activity of its affiliates.
(1) A member requesting aggregation of affiliate activity shall be required to certify to the FINRA/
FINRA,
I strongly appose proposed restrictions on inverse and leveraged Exchange Traded Funds. I have used both of these to very effectively hedge long fixed income and equity positions over short exposure periods. Removing access to these funds will force me into the listed options market to construct similar hedges that more complicated, expensive, entail more basis risk and require more
