Leveraged ETFs are very helpful financial tool for retail investors. They are important to my investment approach. It provides investors access to a basket of stocks and in general it has protection against short raids by hedge funds. Please keep these important investment options around. DO not make retail investors even more weaker by taking this tool away from them.
Cut out the babysitting. What part of free market is going over your head? Do something useful like preventing selling short more stocks than there are in the float. Do something useful like regulating corruption in businesses. Do not take my rights away because you were given the idea by a nice dinner with some lobbyists.
I believe as an experienced investor that I should be able to use leveraged funds to enhance returns on my portfolio or in the case of inverse funds to hedge and protect on the downside for my portfolio. If not allowed to choose my only option would be to open a margin account and use leverage open myself to possibility of margin calls or to potentially short a stock that has unlimited risk.
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I would like to submit a public comment on possible restrictions on my right to invest in public investments. Especially leveraged and inverse funds.
By way of introduction, I am 60 years old, and make most all of the financial decisions in my household. I am an active investor in stocks, funds, bonds, emerging markets, and crypto. Basically, I trade in multiple and varied securities, and run
PLEASE do not take away ordinary retail investors' right to trade these products. There is an inherent risk in any investment. People who participate in the market should be able to assess for themselves what level of risk they want to take on. If they don't want the risk, there are plenty of other vehicles to trade. Most importantly, these products are the only way ordinary
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In the interest of transparency and fairness to the market. I believe it is important to have regular and accurate information keeping and disclosure to encourage retail market participants into the market. Professional firms already have fast, accurate and bespoke trading software and information systems that provide them with a massive advantage in accurately determining price inefficiencies
These changes will be greatly appreciated. It is more than unfortunate knowing there have been companies which went out of business due to coordinated over shorting of their stocks. The enrichment of a few companies, much less individuals, at the expense of thousands of jobs and millions of retirements is abhorrent. I hope we see more changes to stabilize and unobfuscate the markets moving
I would like to see Finra do a daily count of all short positions in the markets by having all Industry Members report to Finra directly, specifically Dark Pool data. As retail traders as a collective have now become ever increasingly aware of the Synthetic shares which are traded in the dark pools to manipulate the price of a stock.
