FINRA has updated the Alternative Display Facility (ADF) User Guide and ADF FIX Specification for Trade Reporting to now include the FINRA/Nasdaq TRF Chicago, IEX (Investors Exchange) and LTSE (Long-Term Stock Exchange).
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Please stop restricting investors from gaining access to ETFs with complex strategies including leverage and shorting sectors, stocks, commodities, etc. Increasing regulation just empowers the wealthy and financial organizations to be the only ones that can benefit from more diverse financial strategies which are needed especially now. I have built my retirement because of access to a broad range
I have been investing a long time and have bought individual stocks, bonds, ETFs. I have shorted the Market through ETFs. I realize the risks involved. Currently we are in a period where the major market indices are falling. Now is the perfect time to protect part of your portfolio with an ETF that shorts the market. It is like insurance on your home. The goal is to protect your investment. I
I have an investment/finance degree and have managed investments for numerous years including stocks, bonds, options, futures contracts, etfs, leveraged etfs and inverse leveraged etfs. I do understand risks involved with leveraged and inverse funds and accept those risks. By limiting investment transactions through this regulation WILL take away market efficiency. By taking away market
It is highly discriminatory toward small investors like myself to limit our ability to invest in inverse and leveraged etfs. Small investors dont have the resources to short stocks and employ margin accounts to enhance their gains the way professionals do. An inverse etf allows you to hedge your portfolio during rising interest rates. If an etf goes against you all you need to do to protect
Another freedom of choice the Gov. is trying take from me, I have been Investing in Leveraged & Inverse Funds for many years, I fully understand the risks that apply and fully capable to deal with them.
Leverage & Inverse Funds are an important tool in my Investment strategy.
It is my right to invest my money as I see fit, I don't need you to guide me.
On the
This is an obvious attempt to keep the rich richer and the poor no chance at these investments . to keep the poor poor. It is more cast society crap. I should be able to invest in anything a person with more wealth then me can invest in. If regulators are ok with me loseing everything on buying lottery tickets then why should theybe concerned if I lose everything on stock or any other investments
I M P O R T A N T
Officers * Partners * Proprietors
TO: All NASD Members
On April 12, 1984, the SEC issued Release No. 34-20853 requesting public comments on the NASDAQ Options Program. The text of this release, together with a document which provides an overview of the NASDAQ Options Program and a fact sheet highlighting major features of the program, are enclosed with this notice.
The
I would just like to add to the regulators that if I'd known how many trillions of dollars the Fed was pumping into the stock market in 2009, 2010, 2011, etc., there is no way I would have been short 3x's if it was public. It was not public and that's a betrayal of the public trust. You are at fault for not making that corporate welfare policy public. You should be prosecuted for
I should be able to choose the public investments for me and my family.
I don't have to go through any special process like passing a test before I can invest in public securities, like leveraged funds. I understand the risk associated with leveraged funds.
I have been investing since the year 1995 and have a good knowledge of US stock market. I chose leveraged fund because Nasdaq will
