Hi there, I have been using leveraged ETFs for around 2 years. They are very useful products for investors. Under the guise of protecting people from themselves you are planning to limit access (shocking they will still be available for the very rich) when retail investors like myself have been using them for years without any problems. Having more investment products available is always a good
I understand that in your efforts to protect investors from themselves you are planning to impose yet more suffocating rules and regulations. Please don't. Over regulation is running rampant and is already doing serious damage to our freedoms and productivity. Thanks for thinking of us, but please refrain.
I am one of millions who appreciate having timely and relatively unfettered
I have been investing in ETF's for the past 20 years, and I have made significant profits toward my retirement from these particular funds. Removing the ability for the retail investor to hold and trade these funds would severely unduly limit the average investor from profiting the same as the establishment and professional traders, which would be discriminatory and and unfair. We are
To whom it may concern, Id like to make my voice heard regarding notice #22-08. Ive been investing for something like 25 years and started using leveraged ETFs since before the " great recession " of 2008, using them with regards to the major indexes. In that time I have never had a problem and the ETFs I used did exactly what they were advertised to do in both up and down markets.
I have used leveraged products as a means to capitalize on market conditions. Through research, education, and constant monitoring, I was very successful. I stayed in leveraged products I understood and that were well funs (TQQQ, for example). The smaller riskier leveraged products were not for me, but that was my decision. This is the same as trading options.
What you offer to one you must
Though reasonably well intended, new regulations that make it more difficult for retail investors to access sophisticated investing tools are the opposite of what free market investing should look like. In a time where equal access is of upmost importance, these proposed rules further the perception of inequality that is already a dark cloud in the mind of many Americans who avoid investing for
Does FINRA only wish to cater to the "RICH CATS" of Wall Street? ETFs are a Godsend to smaller investors, WHOM can NOT open $1 Million + accounts with Goldman Sachs, or Morgan Stanley....and get special privileges (edges) like getting 1st dibs on new IPOs etc. NOW, inverse funds are under review so SMALL fry WILL NOT be allowed to 'short' sectors of the markets? MUST we all
Dear sir or Madam, Although I appreciate the concerns for the well being of the citizens. I find more regulation on any investor infringing and destructive. I personally have a Ph.D. in mathematics. I spend great deal of of time assessing risks, creating models to make sure I am making the right decisions. Using leveraged funds is vial in leveraging, since you use a little bit of money to "
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For decades, Americans of all incomes have looked to the investment markets as an opportunity to build wealth and achieve goals such as putting their kids through college and retiring among other things. Over the years those opportunities have continued to increase with increasing levels of innovative offerings from simple stocks and bonds to mutual funds, ETF’s, IPO’s, dividends,
