I am an active individual investor who uses leveraged and inverse ETFs as a component of a diversified portfolio, and I vehemently oppose restrictions or other qualification requirements for individual investors trading in publicly traded inverse and leveraged ETFs. I am fully capable of reading the prospectuses and evaluating the risks on my own as well as determining the strategy to implement
Don't take away my ability to trade in leveraged long/short products. To have regulators restrict my choice in investment products is absolutely wrong and would ultimately degrade my ability to manage my investments. Inverse funds are critically important in providing PROTECTION. It permits me to offset my long positions when markets decline. By using the inverse leveraged funds I can avoid
While I understand the desire to ensure a safer environment for retail investors, that effort should be limited to what is clearly predatory or fraudulent. Leveraged products are key to many effective risk management strategies which would otherwise require the use of options (significantly more complex) or margin (significantly riskier), both of which are easily accessible to retail investors
I as the investor I should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privilege few.
As an investor, I should not have to go through any special process such as passing a test before I can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. I hold a masters degree in finance; I know and
I have been an investor for more then 40 years and own all types of risk assets including stock and bond ETFs, mutual funds, individual equities in every industry, highly risky and rarely successful option trades and leverages and short funds.
I have had more success trading short or leveraged funds then options. Even a seasoned investor like myself looses money regularly with options. Short
I (not regulators) know my financial situation, investment time horizon, and how I want to structure my portfolio to meet my financial goals. I should be able to choose investments that are right for me and my family without government interference.
Leveraged funds are an important component of how my portfolio is structured, and I shouldn't have to go through any special process like
If FINRA limits access to levered ETFs, they are only hurting the retail investors. Levered ETFs allow investors the ability to achieve better long-run performance for their retirement portfolios. On average, the market return is about 10% since WW2. Levered ETFs allow investors the ability to easily lever these positive expected returns and grow their portfolio without the risk of margin
I am a sophisticated investor with 45 years experience in investing in the stock market I have mutual funds, bond funds, and stocks in my portfolio. It is an investment built over the years to its current value of 2.2 million dollars. I could net have done this without the Leveraged funds I have invested in. I use the them as a long term investment and I use the inverse funds like TQQQ as a
I, as an individual investor, OPPOSE RESTRICTIONS TO MY RIGHT TO INVEST in leveraged investment products.
I should be able to choose the public investment products that are right for me and my family. All investment community should have equal right to access to public investment products, not just the privileged.
I shouldn't have to go through any special process like passing a test
I, as an individual investor, OPPOSE RESTRICTIONS TO MY RIGHT TO INVEST in leveraged investment products.
I should be able to choose the public investment products that are right for me and my family. All investment conmmunity should have equal right to access to public investment products, not just the privileged.
I shouldn't have to go through any special process like passing a test
