Please do Not limit me or my financial investment adviser by limiting the use of leveraged products. Granted these are aggressive products, but everything about stock buying or stock shorting, is aggressive. These products are simply tools to be used at the appropriate time. For example, during big market corrections in the past they give you a chance to recover more quickly from a 20% plus
Leveraged/Inverse Products ... like other investment products, leveraged and inverse funds or ETFs have a useful purpose for those who have some understanding of the terms "leveraged" and "inverse"...
All a person has to do to understand what "leveraged" or "inverse" means is some MINIMAL research on their broker's
I am currently a small investor, living off the income I earn actively investing. Leveraged and Inverse Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) are an important part of my investing strategy and income.
It has not taken me much time at all to learn how to use Leveraged and Inverse ETFs as part of my investing strategy. Concepts like decay, the effects of leveraging and daily resetting seem as easy to grasp
As a former Registered Representative with PaineWebber and traded successfully Inverse Commodity and Equity ETN's, one as ticker tape reader and using regression programs for trend analysis, I appreciate the opportunity within my IRA to protect the account value of cash long and short. The issue of Future contracts, Currency Swaps, and Repurchase Agreements are internal to the ETNs,
Regulation, in almost every instance of its implementation has never been what it has been sold as. It is almost never to protect investors and almost always serve the self interest of those regulating it like a Trading platform removing a buy button from specific stocks.
There are thousands of sources of information for investors to research and understand these complex inverse ETFS. The only
FINRA has taken disciplinary actions against the following firms and individuals for violations of FINRA rules; federal securities laws, rules and regulations; and the rules of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB).
April 12, 1988
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
LAST DATE FOR COMMENT: MAY 12, 1988.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The NASD requests comments on proposed amendments to Appendix A to Article III, Section 30 of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice (Appendix A), which contains the NASD's margin maintenance rules. The proposed amendments will update the NASD's margin maintenance rules to
I don't want to be parented by a government agency that wants to take away investor's rights and destroy a free market system wherein investor's determine their own suitability and investment goals. The proposed changes are an invasion into investor's private affairs. I very well can read a prospectus and decide for myself without any further governmental
My name is Brian and I am a retail investor. I do not have a background in finance or economics and I do not have any SEC certifications. I have 3 trading accounts; a joint brokerage, an individual brokerage and an IRA. The combined balance of these accounts is about $300K. I am in my 40s and no longer hold my corporate job. I am self-employed and chose to invest my own retirement and cash/margin
Finra 21-19 is a change that is long overdue to the short reporting systems that have plagued the United States capital markets for too long. The institutions that have the ability to misrepresent their short exposure and subsequent effect on the markets is not only damaging to the retail Investor but the markets as a whole. The changes implemented in Finra 21-19 are not only a step in the right
