I am a former high school teacher. I have been reading in economics for years. The inverse ETFs permit me to hedge my long positions. They are much less risky than shorting individual stocks. It would be not a help to me to take them off the market.
FINRA, Please consider maintaining leveraged and Inverse funds and ETFs as viable investment tools for retail investors. Proshares and Fidelity always advice about the risk associated on using this products and I am full aware that this are short term investment products and as such they must be monitored frequently.
You are attempting to channel Retail investors into categories in an attempt to regulate their trades. If you would actually regulate the Banks, Brokers and Short Sellers these new regulations against Retail would be unnecessary. It appears that Retail traders have become a threat to your "Status Quo".
1) Leveraged ETF is the best . 2) Please do NOT ban it or limit its use. 3) Please ban all short sellers. 4) Please ban all kinds of manipulation of stock price by market makers, hedge funds, and mutual funds. 5) Thank you for not banning leveraged ETF.
If you are going to limit an investors preference to invest in defensive ETF's then you should not allow any ETF's. There is no law against puts or shorting. This change will simply disadvantage small investors . Stop trying to run our lives...you can't even run our government,
Dear Regulator,
I first learned about leveraged ETFs in 2007, just before the great financial crisis and I have used them as part of my portfolio to achieve my investment goals ever since.
I had a position in them just before the great financial crisis, and remember well how quickly they lost value, but having grown up in a hyper-inflationary environment, I also had clear understanding of the
We as retail need full transparency on these synthetic short positons. Hedge funds have an unfair advantage over retail to sway a market one way or the other we need a level playing field. thank you.
Please go to daily reporting so we the retail investor can be on a par basis with the big money hedge institutional investors. There is no reason short interest and FTDs can’t be reported and tracked daily with the current technology available.
Yes! Please make these changes for a more fair and visible market. Individual investors are at a disadvantage when this information is withheld. The market should not favor short sellers as it does now. Congratulations on moving to make the changes the market needs!
T+0 reporting of short interest. No using the options chain to push FTD's past the original settlement date. Restrict the use of dark pools to trades larger than %5 of the float. Generally enforce existing rules in good faith.
