I was an advisor with a series 65. Some of my clients were knowledgeable some not. There is no doubt that FINRA has some good regulatory laws but guys this is a huge over reach. It is not your job to protect me against myself. This is play money not retirement money. Even if ten or twenty percent of my retirement money was in derivatives that is none of your business. Let the broker and or the
I believe it would not be right to limit the use of inverse and leveraged funds only to specialized brokers or limit them to certain sectors. As a public investor I use leveraged and inverse funds on a daily basis as a way to seek enhanced returns. I am fully aware of the risk of these funds, going so far as to download 30+ years of historical market data and running my trading strategy against
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Comments: I would like to voice my opinion about leveraged & inverse products. I believe inverse products provide an inexpensive opportunity for individuals and advisors to hedge / short positions. Other options such as Puts are far more complex and expensive. As for leveraged ETF's, my simple thought is there is no need for these products whatsoever, with the key word being need.
I very much disagree with the idea that an unelected bureaucracy, however laudable its motives might be, should be telling ME what publicly traded investment I can buy, is outrageous, and totalitarian. One can clearly see that ordinary people are often better able to see value than are so-called experts. And if an ordinary person , like me, screws up based on faulty logic, so be it. On the other
I am really in the dark about how a lot of the short sale regulations apply but more in AWE at how many of them are not enforced. Market Makers and companies like citadel should have to report ALL of what they do, should be held to a much higher standard and not be able to manipulate the markets through synthetic shares, dark pools and the like. It is basically stealing money from the retail
BAN all OTC & HFT (dark pool and high frequency trading). Ban Citadel Connect, rehypothecation, and short selling like EVERY OTHER FIRST WORLD COUNTRY has so the United States financial system isn't looked at as a place to commit fraud. Take away licenses from people who break the laws. Citadel has over 58 infractions in the past decade and they're still allowed to do business?
As a hard working citizen of the USA, I put my faith in the government to ensure the system work for all investors. It is hard enough for folks having to deal with rising real estate and other costs, but I am told to work hard and invest to offset. I am losing faith in the system and the government who sworn to protect all investors. I do not understand why short sellers have so many
Complete transparency! If a market maker like Citadel can process order flow and know in real time what moves I'm making, then it should go without question that I be able to see what positions they are taking, also in real time. It's an extreme conflict of interest that they are allowed to do both. These current timelines for reporting are an extreme disadvantage to retail investors.
I like what you are talking about here daily transparency on fails to deliver, synthetic short positions, married naked options contracts. Transparency on where the borrowed shares are coming from, verification of shares only being borrowed one time by firms that are borrowing out shares, verification that shares being borrowed are coming from proper sources not being borrowed from clients with
