Please don't add additional burdens on investors to invest in products like inverse or leveraged funds. I use these in my own investment strategies and are excellent choices. It removes the need for trading on margin which is important for IRAs. These choices should be available for all investors, not just wealthy people or the so called sophisticated investor. Removing these options
I am not sure what the concern is with respect to these type of investments. I appreciate that they exist so I can take a bet that values will fall (inverse funds) and take a leveraged bet so as not to tie up too much of my money with the bet or hedge as the case may be. I believe the disclosures are adequate. I appreciate that you might be well intentioned with this approach, but I wonder how
If you know how to invest in these larger funds and heavily traded indexes, you probably have learned enough to know the risks and rewards from doing such. There is already many mentions if you're getting into a riskier investment. The focus for FINRA should be maybe helping high school students learn about investments. Not helping people that already have a good knowledge of it be
I oppose any regulations that restrict my right to invest how and when I wish. When I invest my own money- I should have the right to choose any public investment that I deem appropriate, regardless of my net worth. I should not have to be submitted to any special processes to access public securities such as leveraged and inverse funds. I am an educated individual and perfectly capable of
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I have been investigating, buying selling trading, holding funds my whole complete adult life. We have been self employed and self invested into IRA, Roth IRA, SEP and so on. Leveraged funds, international, Us non leveraged are all a part of our now retired portfolio! Every fund has helped me to invest and learn more about investing. It would be a profoundly hurtful move to take away investment
I am an individual retired investor. I have been using inverse and leveraged ETFs and ETNs with very favorable results for several years and do not think that the proposed restrictions are necessary nor advisable.
I have found them very useful and profitable to use and understand the complications and dangers well I think. They are not that complicated to understand.
Possibly for unusual things
FINRA is about as effective as a mall cop, police but have no teeth. Fines companies millions for crimes that made them billions. 3 generations have been short sold down the river. We would not have as many poor folks or homeless if the hedge funds didn't short companies to BK. Dark Pool trading has allowed hedge funds to short well past being a market maker. One hedge fund donates 70
Comments: L & I funds are no more risky than playing Options. If anything you should be limiting individual investors availability in using leverage to play options, or options trading in general, which can hurt the market as well. Options trading is far more like gambling and less like investing than anything else, had gained popularity with the newer more uneducated investing crowd and
This is nothing more than a proposal to make the rich richer & the poor loose more money in a manipulated financial system. The rich create the opportunity and capitalize on it and it's been happening for many years. How about we omit the rich from investing in these investments. We all share the air, highways, waterways, restaurants & paying taxes but only 1-social status
