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On June 30, 1988, the maximum Small Order Execution System (SOES) order size for all Nasdaq National Market System (Nasdaq/NMS) securities was established as follows:
A 1,000-share maximum order size was applied to those Nasdaq/NMS
Anyone who wants to invest should be able to. High risk investments are already limited at brokerage firms, example if you wanted to invest in certain option contracts brokerage firms will require a specific amount of capital in your account or you have to be eligible to invest using margin. Firms already are doing this to protect their risks so this would be unnecessary. Average investors should
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This proposed update to the outside business activities disclosure requirement sounds great! The existing rules force financial institutions to overstep monitoring of employees' personal lives. For example, someone who has a hobby of buying Chuck E. Cheese tokens in bulk and then re-selling them on eBay to collectors should not need to disclose this activity to their employer.
Your threats to regulate and restrict my investment options is an insult to my intelligence and yet another slap in the face to the American value system and spirit of free enterprise and capitalism that has BUILT this country!!! I hedge to protect my investments and returns from volatility by using many of the products you are attempting to restrict...by doing so you will only succeed in
The risks of investing are well known. Loss of capital is always possible. The risks of investing in leveraged and inverse funds are equivalent. As an investor, I don't need the government to tell me what I may or may not invest in. Your duty is not to protect me from myself, or from possibly poor decisions I may make. At the limit, your duty may be to inform me of risks, but beyond that, it
Please oppose any restrictions on my right to use my money as I deem fit. I understand the risk of leveraged funds and do not require any special measures imposed on me. I can't help but believe you really don't care about my welfare but only care about corporations possibly losing capital. Why would things change now when things did not change during the longest bull run in the history
Limiting investors in any manner from public market participation - whether in leveraged or inverse funds - is a terrible concept which runs counter to maintaining liquid, free and open capital markets. Brokerage firms and RIAs already are adept at advising clients as to the suitability of investments, and investors should not be precluded from participating in such public market investments
I, as the investor, should be able to choose what investments I want to commit my capital to. As an investor, I should have all available information about an investment to make a prudent decision based on my goals and risk tolerance. Putting restrictions on investments deemed high risk is only favoring those that are approved to trade them. I request that FINRA focuses on ensuring that proper
I am a retail investor that needs access to the same shares, instruments and leveraged techniques and hedges institutional and very well to do investors have. I understand and assume all risk with my capital. I use some of these instruments to seek higher returns in some cases or hedge against loss in other instances. As long as there is a prospectus and a warning on use and misuse of these tools
