I use leveraged products as a small part of my portfolio to both hedge as well as enhance gains. I learned to use these leveraged products from the information provided to me on provider web sites well informed of the dangers "that these are not long term" investment strategies. I have gained from both short and long leveraged products.
Inverse funds help me protect/hedge my investments especially within accounts where using alternative methods (i.e. shorting, derivatives, etc.) is not available. Leveraged funds help me enhance my returns in a similar manner except to the upside in, mostly retirement, accounts where options trading isn't available.
I OPPOSE limitations on the investment. It is my right to buy leveraged and inverse funds like UltraPro and UltraPro Short funds. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged. I understand leveraged and inverse funds and their risks. I use them to protect my investment and they are very important tools in my investment strategy.
I object to applying restrictive regulations to investors trading in ETFs that are leveraged to 2x or 3x. The same for those ETFs that are reversely indexed. The reverse investment ETFs are an especially convenient and efficient alternate to the "shorting" of stock trades. Do not differentiate between leveraged or reversed ETFs and the usual form of ETFs. Simply leave a good thing as it
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Synthetic shares need to be penalized and/ or outlawed. Additionally, dark pool trading needs to be stopped. Brokerages that constantly short stocks should be required to reconcile at market value no later than 15 days following the first FTD prior to being allowed to trade openly on that stock.
To whom it may concern, As a retail investor, I believe transparency is vital to a fair and efficient market. I think it is unlawful for a company to be shorted more than 140% of its float. In no other industry can you sell 140% of a product legally. It is important that this is taken seriously as the integrity of the market is at stake.
FINRA and the SEC aren't doing enough to level the playing field for retail investors and we deserver the right for better transparency in the market. It's clear that illegal shorts are not covering their positions yet the slap on the wrist fines are merely considered the price to do business. This has to change!
All short positions need to be reported hourly. Positions need to be report on open and close. Substantial fines, up to the cost of the underlying need to be levied against those improperly filing or not filing at all. This data should be available in full no later than end of business day.
I recently joined the stock market. But I see there’s a lot of corruption with short sellers. I hope this can be straightened out so we have a fair market to do trading. Several of my friends are thinking about quitting trading all together if it doesn’t begin to be fair
