I have been investing for over 20 years, mainly in common stocks but sometimes in so-called “complex products” like futures, options, leveraged and inverse ETPs, etc. I use them when I believe they are suitable tools for the market situation at that moment. I don’t mean that I always make right investment decisions but, as a retail investor, I find that it is very important for me to have the
Inverse funds are important to my investment strategy.
Since I dont short individual stocks, this allows me a convenient way of doing so with less risk.
I am capable of understanding the concepts and the risks involved.
Please keep this option available to me.
This well intended proposed regulation will force small investors into trading futures contracts in able to hedge or short the market, creating even more risk for the average investor.
Stop this silliness now. This proposed regulation does more harm than good.
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NASD Regulation, Inc. (NASD Regulation) requests comment on a new proposed rule, NASD® Rule 2460 (Rule), that would prohibit any payment by an issuer or the issuer's affiliates and promoters, directly or indirectly, to a member for
These regulations should have been in place 30 years ago. It is absurd to me that it took the public gaining awareness of short manipulation, and planned bankruptcy of many great companies by Hedge Funds to even get this on the table.
It is ridiculous to keep smaller investors from being able to take a short or leveraged position in the markets. I have made a good deal of money that I otherwise wouldn't have without these tools. Why should only wealthy people have access to these markets?
Wow. Looks like if you enact all of these, you might have some idea of how much you colossally failed to do your job. The total inadequacy of security regulation in the USA should make every past and present employee of these organizations embarrassed. People saw this before and had to just take it... one man against the population. Now, you cannot silence us and we ll expose every corrupt member
It is outrageous that you would deny individual investors the opportunity to leverage or hedge their own money the way they want to. Enough of your so-called protection. You are only interested in holding people back.
Eliminate short ladder and spoofing. Monitor periodically (at least once a month) the total number of existing shares (by having mandatory submissions) so that synthetic share anomalies can be detected and corrected right away.
Citadel and Robinhood must be held accountable for their collusion and manipulation of the "fair market." They should not be allowed to have any interests or assets in the market. Their assets need to be forfeited.
