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
I have been investing for 12 years on my own. Throughout this time I have had to deal with various incidents of government officials trying to "protect me" by restricting what I can and can not trade on the markets. Well guess what IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS WHAT I DO WITH MY MONEY! Restricting complex products is quite frankly not your job. If I want to buy them it is my choice. If I
The 2020 TRACE Fact Book and fourth-quarter data tables are now available. The tables include aggregated information for securitized products as well as corporate and agency debt securities, including trades reported, the top 50 issues by trades and by par value, the average daily par value traded, customer buy vs. customer sell ratios and more.
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I am an individual investor. I believe that I should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me and my family. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged.
I shouldn't have to go through any special process like passing a test before I can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. Certainly I understand
I am a 40 year old CFA Charterholder, investing for my own portfolio. I am shocked and disturbed to hear that investing in and/or trading certain products will be contingent upon certain criteria. I am investing my own capital, and feel it is against my rights to be told what I can and cannot invest in. Furthermore, I have completed extensive exams within the financial space, as well as worked
