March 1, 2010
Dear Executive Representative:
FINRA is issuing its 2010 annual examination priorities letter to highlight new and existing areas of significance to FINRA's examination program for the year. This year's annual letter goes beyond the focus of FINRA's Market Regulation and Member Regulation Departments to also include topics that are of heightened importance to the
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
Taxation without representation is extortion. If you're not representing me and my interests, then who are you representing? We have rights!
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
Using proshares makes it quick and easy for me to hedge my positions in a down market by buying some sdow or sqqq. Whether going long or short it simplifies things for me.
I would like to continue investing in leveraged ETFs. I feel I am acting in my familys best interest. Thank you.
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
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
NASD members are advised that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved an amendment to the NASD Board of Governors' "Free-Riding and Withholding"
how are synthetic shorts not being overseen? The leverage these hedge funds have is ridiculous. this oversight will lead to more corruption and a gap in wealth. fix this ASAP.
I support this regulation as a step towards decreasing the systemic risk and opportunities for market manipulation created by the current, insufficient standards for reporting short position activity.
