Dear sirs
Thank you for letting me know your consideration of leveraged ETF. I am testing an investment strategy using leveraged ETF. According to my extensive simulation, the strategy itself does not represent higher risk. But short term wise, it can fluctuate a lot. The reward is better than the market average. Therefore, the risk/ reward ratio is low.
ETF of market does not have the risk of
I strongly oppose limiting investors ability to trade leveraged and inverse funds. These can be great tools of various usages like market timing and hedging.
These funds are probably riskier than their corresponding non-leveraged funds, but there are tons of real stocks that are much more risky than these funds, so why not put limitations on those stocks?
I believe it's investors
The proposed rule penalizes average investors. Average investors should have the right to invest in vehicles that puts these investors in the same position as hedge fund managers. These hedge funds are not available to average investors. This rule puts them at a distinct disadvantage as investors as it removes a tool for average investors from their "tool belts".
For too long
As a “retail investor”, which is a term I hate, the actions of Wall Street “professionals” over the past 6 months or longer has been eye opening to say the least. As a 43 year old man with a Bachelors degree in finance, who has taken classes on investing, stocks, mutual funds, options, bonds, and various other securities I always knew that I wanted a professional to manage my portfolio and 401k
May 6 Revised submission: First let me say that I am a Roosevelt supporter (Teddy and FDR), not anti-government. I have traded ProFunds, which offer shorts and leverage, for about ten years. ProFunds is my favorite fund family. I do not care about leverage, but I do care about being able to short (inverse funds). I do not have an advisor or broker, and I never have or will. Common knowledge is
Thank you FINRA for extending the period for commenting. Also, I thank you for attempting to make the U.S. Equities Market a fairer and safer place for retail investors to do business. This year is the first in which I became a direct participant in the U.S. Stock Market. Before this year I only passively participated though my retirement plan, but this year I proudly became a retail investor.
We should be able to choose the public investments that are right for us and our family. And public should be treated equal, public investment should be available to all of the public not just the privileged.
We should not go through any special process like passing a test before we can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. I am using leveraged fund to gain exposure to
I wholeheartedly agree with the proposed short interest reporting changes in this notice and continued heightened supervision of short interest reporting. I’m a believer that synthetic volume defiantly counters a fair and free market. Retail traders have continuously been walked over by the “system” since the stock markets inception. As a fellow regulator, I know first hand the importance of “
Capital formation is the lifeblood of a thriving economy. It fuels business growth, innovation, and job creation. In the United States, however, an outdated and increasingly overreaching regulatory framework—specifically SEC Rule 15c2-11—has become a barrier rather than a bridge to economic vitality. Originally intended to protect investors from fraudulent or opaque over-the-counter (OTC)
A lesson learned - As a retired Quality Analyst from Lockheed Martin, trading an IRA, I've struggled with only trading long. I've learned with inverted ETFs, long is only half of the dynamic. Forced to take a cash tends to make one walk away from the market. This disengagement with the market and reengagement is dangerous. With the inverted ETFs one can stay engaged and work
