Inverse funds are an important investment vehicle that should be made and kept available to the average investor. They offer investors the ability to hedge other investments and protect themselves from adverse market moves. To remove this tool from investors would be short sighted and negatively impact the average investor by not allowing this tool for them but to continue to allow it for high
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I believe it is overly restrictive for the FINRA to prohibit or control the products investors choose to use for their own benefit. Leveraged products allow individuals to participate in investment strategies that give opportunities that before creation were only available to the rich investors and therefore without these options small retail investors are at a disadvantage. As one example, as an
I would like to see more oversight over short interest reporting. Increasing the reporting requirement frequency to daily would be a great start to begin leveling the playing field. The game is rigged right now. Investors will stop investing in equities eventually if they believe (rightfully so) that the whole game is rigged. Firms like Citron Research need to be out of business.
I lost over $100,000. To stock symbol GTEH because of the tremendous amount of short selling mostly by some market maker called CDEL out of Chicago. The CEO of GTEH has grossly diluted the GTEH stock. Can you please research this and put an end to it on behalf of the 1000 s of GTEH Shareholders, we collectively have lost over 90% .
I respectfully request that individual investors such as myself be continued to be provided with the opportunity to invest the leveraged investment products, inverse or otherwise. I understand that long term investment in leveraged inverse products are very risky. However, I use these products for short term hedging purposes, and without them my investment portfolio would be subject to an
It is my opinion the markets should be as transparent and fair across all avenues. The lack of transparency and information tilts the scale away from the retail investor and in turn causes distrust towards further involvement. Short information should be required to be disclosed to accurately guage the status and balance of a trade, and to rule out any potential foul play or bad actors.
I have been trading in inverse funds for many years. They are an important part of my portfolio. They can counter the downturns and bring a sense of balance to the financial markets. They reflect the TRUTH of poorly performing entities. Unfortunately, corporate buy backs and short squeezes are the real villains affecting true market valuations, not leveraged and inverse funds. It would be a
Leveraged funds are a vital part of my overall strategy. They are a small portion of my portfolio but they allow me a convenient vehicle to hedge short term risk, especially when I expect downward corrections. On rare occasions I have used them to enhance returns when strong uptrends are in place. Restricting these investments is unnecessary in a free market system and I urge you to keep these
I would actually prefer to see increased availability of leveraged and inverse funds. The leverage is comparable to having a margin account while using a cash account. The inverse works the same on shorting without a margin account. The funds hold the margin and manage the margin risks.
My "complication" is futures that move overnight while the funds are unavailable to
