At 64 years of age, holding 7 professional certifications & having experience in industrial, education, medical, law, & CPA/Financial Planning fields, I feel I am more than qualified to control & invest my retirement funds as I see fit! I DON'T need FIRA to "save" me from myself! The option to invest in PUBLICLY traded funds should
FINRA,
I strongly appose proposed restrictions on inverse and leveraged Exchange Traded Funds. I have used both of these to very effectively hedge long fixed income and equity positions over short exposure periods. Removing access to these funds will force me into the listed options market to construct similar hedges that more complicated, expensive, entail more basis risk and require more
Please do not do this. You may believe youre helping the average investor but youre in fact harming them. This action would take away yet another investment/trading option available to the commoner. The wealthy have a multitude of investments options available to them that lower networth people simply cannot access. Leveraged funds specifically allow the clean utilization of highly technical
These proposed regulations are outrageous. In a time when markets are posed to melt down, what other hedge does the average investor have but leveraged and inverse funds? These funds are not difficult to understand, certainly no more difficult than the average vastly overvalued equity or byzantine mutual fund.
This seems like a way of preventing normal investors from protecting ourselves in
Imposing laws to prohibit and make it harder for the average person to invest is wrong. Actions like this are the reason many people distrust the government and the top 1% income earners. We should be able to invest our money to build wealth and stability for our families without "tests" and needing "permission" from a broker. Funds help to build out my
FINRA's Membership Application Program serves as the entry point to FINRA membership for firms that meet 14 different standards for admission. On this episode, we hear how the group ensures members and would-be members adhere to these standards to safeguard the integrity of the market and ensure Americans can invest with confidence.
I disagree with the proposal to restrict access to leveraged or inverse funds for several reasons:
1. It is not the government's responsibility to tell me what I am capable of investing in. It is my money, my risk.
2. It is my responsibility to determine if an investment is right for me, and to understand benefits and risks.
3. it is not the government's role to assess or
I have a constitutional right to choose how and where I invest my funds. This right should not be regulated to allow only the privileged or those with certain wealth factors. I furthermore do not need to take an exam to determine or allow me to invest my income where I determine is best suited for my needs. These ETFs provide broad exposure and help to offset and contribute to my gains. In
Publication Date: February 23, 2023
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To restrict small investors from trading is a crime in itself. As a disabled veteran, I would be greatly shamed to see these actions go through and see millions of people in my salary scale be unable to invest in Proshares products. Please do not do this, Let Americans trade at their own discretion. I (and my fellow investors) are more than capable of understanding how leveraged/inverse funds
