The tools of an investor to offset risk through the use of some of the inverse or short funds could substantially impact their ability to mitigate losses. Investors need to understand the risks involved in EVERY product, including publicly traded stocks. ALL investments carry risk, every single one. The Boards ability to define who is knowledgeable or not is overstepping their scope of regulation
As a professional investor with 15 years on Wall Street and another 8 years at the US Treasury, I find this stretch to be over-regulation. Investors should have the ability to choose investments and while limiting investment choices makes a sense for some investors, broadening the scope to require additional hurdles and an regulator review is an over stretching. Investing is risky. Investors are
The proposed regulations to restrict individual investors' ability to buy leveraged and inverse funds are not acceptable. We do not need anyone to determine which investments we can consider and purchase. We are capable of doing the necessary due diligence and do not need your supervision other than to make sure we receive factual information.
Any investment available to some investors
As a long time investor the idea that I can not understand the risks of complex and leveraged funds is ridiculous. I regularly use these type assets to hedge against things like the current rise in interest rates and do not require the government to hold my hand while I use them. The market is not a FDIC insured bank account and investors are regularly informed that they can lose money and if
I'm just a lower-middle class investor. For the most part, the general public should be allowed to invest in inverse and leveraged funds as long as the companies providing them aren't out to scam the public with unreasonable and/or suspicious tricks. If there is something unusual about a fund, a brief-to-the-point and clear explanation, avoiding double-negative language,
I oppose the proposed rule regarding increased restrictions on trading certain funds / securities. I, and other members of the public, am capable of making investment decisions and can suitably analyze the benefits / drawbacks to various investments. Taking risks is a fundamental part of the human experience, and placing further limits on the kinds of people who can trade certain products will
Comments: The leveraged and inverse ETF products offered by Direxion and certain other institutions include complete descriptions of the risks associated with these types of investments and frequent warnings regarding risk in the product descriptions. Direxion even offers comprehensive explanations and educational materials with detailed product information. It is very clear in the fund
This proposal is just another attempt to restrict the options, retail investors have to invest in the market. Large institutions have always had a clear advantage, privy to information first, flash trading etc. Restricting retail investor's ability to short or long the markets using these types of vehicles is, once again giving the institutions the upper hand in playing in a field they
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Comments: FREEDOM TO CHOOSE should be the norm. in the market any and all financial products have risk embedded. the ONLY way a trader can make use of those products in a limited risk situation is by having correct and updated information that is really understandable to most, specially pointing extreme risk situations and by educating himself on how to handle risk with those products. so, my
