Guidance on FINRA’s Suitability Rule
Taking away my ability to purchase inverse and leveraged ETFs is insulting to the retail investor. The current tools available to today's investors have leveled the playing field, with retail having the ability to use tools unavailable in the past. These tools allow me to offset my core positions without having to sell the underlying securities. They also allow me to participate in the
I'm contacting you to oppose the potential additional regulation applied to certain "complex" investments.
First, what I choose to invest in, public or private securities or other instruments, is my sovereign choice. I educated myself on e.g. leveraged and inverse funds, and have an understanding in how they work and their risk/benefit equation as it applies to me.
Let me ask you, who gives you the authority to determine if any investments are too complex for me? You're supposed to protect me from unscrupulous brokers. So now you're protecting me from myself? I am an individual investor.
So now I'm too stupid to not educate myself on investing? I need you to make me:
1. Pass a regulator-imposed test of your specialized investment
Please don't limit retail usage of Leveraged and Inverse ETFs. They're actually easier to use than options/derivatives, and are incredibly useful tools for any active trader. You should not be limiting the average American's ability to build wealth in any way, as long as it doesn't cause harm to anyone else. Both of the brokerages I use have warnings for
I'm a 26 year industry veteran with over a decade on the retail side, over a decade on the institutional side w/corp fin, syndicate, corporate buyback experience - we literally wrote the 10b-5-1 plans with out attorneys back before they became popular.
I literally left the confines of traditional Wall Street for their inability to manage risk and the handcuffs they strap on advisors in
CommenPlease don't limit retail usage of Leveraged and Inverse ETFs. They're actually easier to use than options/derivatives, and are incredibly useful tools for any active trader. You should not be limiting the average American's ability to build wealth in any way, as long as it doesn't cause harm to anyone else. Both of the brokerages I use have warnings for Leveraged and
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Notice of FINRA District Committee Elections and Ballots
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