I, and most, people who currently invest have a wealth of information available to them, in addition to close relationships with brokers and advisors. No amount of the governmental control you propose will add much to mitigate what you may perceive as inequities or irregularities in investing. I feel you would best spend your time and resources monitoring adherence to current laws and regulations
The United States possesses a free market. It is up to investors to be well informed and understand the investment choices that they are making. Restricting investments from investors based on specific criteria is a way of controlling or manipulating markets and is not ethical. What is being considered is not ethical. Stop trying to make our free markets restricted. All investors should have the
Regulators, Leveraged ETFs are important to my investment strategy and ability to tailor my investments to my risk tolerance. I use leveraged and invers ETFs for efficient hedging and speculation based on my analysis. Restricting free access to these instruments means infringing on my rights to manage my investments without outside intervention and will be an absolutely stupid policy that will
Required labeling and disclosure of a fund's use of leverage and inverse strategies is sufficient information for the majority of investors. Regulatory focus should be on the transparency of the labeling and the sufficiency of the disclosure required of these funds. Ultimately, government cannot protect a person from his/her poor judgement, hubris, or greed; a person bent on failure
The regulations you are suggesting imply that only an elite class of investors are capable of making informed choices about their personal investments. I take offense to that as I believe that I am sufficiently intelligent to make my own risk assessments and investment decisions. And if Im not, I have no one to blame but myself. Investors dont need FINRA limiting our investment options under
Dear Finra,
I strongly encourage you to continue allowing retail and retirement investors like myself to continue investing in levered and complex products. These products are great investment tools for people like myself who choose to perform careful and thoughtful research while understanding the risks that come with them. It would be government overreach to restrict individuals from making
I am writing to express my opposition to increase regulation limiting the use and trading of reverse and leveraged securities. While these can represent a higher risk form of investing, they can also be an effective way for ordinary and yet well informed investors to navigate different trends and market environments. Efforts to limi this type of investing to the privileged few does not benefit
More transparency in short positions is necessary for a fair market. There are currently too many methods of obscuring the real short interest of certain securities which creates an unfair environment for retail investors. FINRA should make more information about short sales public as well as investigate further into how synthetic shares are being created and hidden.
It is important to allow investors to use leveraged and inverse funds in their portfolios. These add an opportunity to participate in a sound and well managed personal investment effort to be successful. Brokerages provided valued information and warning about these produces to their clients.
Individual investors put a lot of time and effort to understand L&I Funds. I know that I do
Comments: Restricting an investor's access to investment products will only put them at a disadvantage. These tools fit into a number of viable investment strategies, and can be useful to hedge a portfolio to mitigate risk. Having higher net worth doesn't not necessarily make someone a more intelligent, qualified investor. Providing information and making investors aware of
