Complex products (ex: leveraged ETFs) are already limited in several wise ways. Limiting the leverage available to 3x is a good policy. However, completely gatekeeping who can access these products would simply increase inequality and unnecessarily increase costs for consumers. Gatekeeping access to all these complex opportunities would be akin to providing the unearned rent seeking through
Restricting retail investors' access to complex financial products reproduces an elite class of investors who can play by different rules than the average Joe. The proposed regulations seek to means-test and require convoluted checks which inherently restrict access to and mitigate the accessibility of smaller investors like myself to financial products that are an integral part of my
To Whomever this concerns, Please institute rules that will help investors in the American marketplace have faith that the system is not corrupt, that there is a level playing field, and that the government works for the people and not just wealthy and well-connected institutions and individuals. In this modern "information" era, the disparity in the available information to retail
As I see it, the current US market is full of nothing but fraud and blatant manipulation, with regulatory agencies doing nothing to police it to the point of them being complicit in these actions as well. They are complicit through their complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation in several ways. Naked short selling by large hedge funds like Citadel, point72 and Melvin
FINRA Reminds Firms of Their Sales Practice Obligations with Regard to the Sale of Securities in a High Yield Environment
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So Investments are too complex for us "regular" people? Discrimination much? Investments are only for those with a high net worth? Discrimination much? It's 2022, the time where we all talk about discrimination and how we can fix it. Well with what's been coming out of lawmakers hands in 2022, has been fueling the discrimination fire. I started investing in 2021 when CoinBase