I am fully capable of assessing risks of inverse and leveraged funds. I've used them for years. I have over 35,000 followers on social media, and I help to educate them regularly.
I believe you could inform the public of risks through "warning label-like" statements such as giving examples of how one can rapidly lose money using a leverage fund while the market is
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OverviewThe following is a guide to assist applicants as they prepare and submit information and documentation for FINRA Form New Member Application (NMA). To conduct securities transactions and businesses with the investing public in the US, a broker-dealer and its associated persons must be registered with FINRA. An important step in the registration process is to seek approval for
Here we go again. Try to make it look like you are just trying to protect us since we can't possibly be smart enough to evaluate the funds. Thank goodness that the government and Wall street are here to save us. This is just a method to control the market. It has nothing to do with protecting individual investors. Why are you so concerned about funds but we can gamble as much as we
Dear FINRA Regulators,
In a free country, is it not the people, rather than unelected regulators, who get to decide what to do with their own money? That's what living in a free country is all about: individual liberty AND personal responsibility. In the market place, this plays out as the opportunity for reward and the possibility of risk. Virtually every trader knows that they may lose
I have been an investor for more then 40 years and own all types of risk assets including stock and bond ETFs, mutual funds, individual equities in every industry, highly risky and rarely successful option trades and leverages and short funds.
I have had more success trading short or leveraged funds then options. Even a seasoned investor like myself looses money regularly with options. Short
Dear FINRA,
I am writing today to express my disappointment that you are considering regulations limiting my publicly available investment options. Only through a wide and diverse array of investment options can a diverse and balanced portfolio be maintained. As an investor in the market today, just as in 2008-2009, maintaining a hedge against extreme volatility is an important and needed aspect
I oppose restrictions on public investments to so-called "complex products" including leveraged and inverse funds. Preventing the general public from accessing these types of investments will subvert the ability of non-high-net-worth individuals from offsetting losses during periods of economic retraction as well as capitalizing during times of volatility with calculated risk-
ProShares offer a choice to investors. Disclosure of risks associated with ProShare's ETFs are well documented. Communication is regularly provided and easily reviewed by the public at large. Introducing illiquidity to the marketplace does not benefit existing shareholders and rather hurt small investors like myself. I currently invest in leveraged funds to take advantage of short to
FINRA Regulators:
While I understand the concern of heightened risk posed by leveraged securities, I am alarmed at the proposed measures restricting investment into these publicly traded leveraged securities, especially requirements related to net worth, because these types of investments allow the type of returns necessary for lower net worth individuals to attain financial success, and
