No one makes my financial or investment decisions but me. I particularly object to having to pass a test or get a broker's permission to invest my own money as I see fit. I might consent to take the advice of a broker or a government bureaucrat if either of them could demonstrate superb financial or investment acumen, but I consider that unlikely. You bureaucrats mess up with the
I use many tools available to us investors helping me towards my financial goals. Some of the tools happen to be leveraged and inverse funds that you are currently looking at upending. To remove these tools from my toolbox is wrong.
I make the decision as to which investments that are done and any restrictions on my right to invest as we know today should not be put in place.
Having my financial
I used leveraged funds as a very small part of my investment portfolio. I understand the risk associated with them, have talked with financial advisors and explored the risk on my own and use it as part of a diversified approach. I do not need government or regulatory oversite to make a financial decision. Public options should be available to the public, not just those who a select group can
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At its September 1997 meeting, the NASD Regulation, Inc., Board of Directors (Board) approved a proposed
To limit leveraged ETF funds to the Wall Street elite and the very wealthy would be inequitable. This would be one more step toward the economic equality in this country that has manifested over the past four decades. To have one set of rules for the rich and another for the middle class and lower class limits opportunity to invest and the chance to improve one's financial station in
I strongly support any rule change that brings greater transparency to our financial markets. Daily reporting requirements will surely help retail investors better understand what these large financial players are doing to our markets.
Sec. 7. The Corporation may secure the fidelity of any or all of its officers, agents, or employees by bond or otherwise.
Amended by SR-NASD-2007-023 eff. July 30, 2007.
Adopted by SR-NASD-97-71 eff. Jan. 15, 1998.
While I appreciate FINRAs attempt to protect investors from the Martha Stewarts and Michael Millikans of the world I would remind you I am an adult. I made the money and I chose to invest it how I want and I am offended that an institution of regulation would choose to shackle the people its meant to serve to financial servitude of large institutions and limit our freedom of choice to a pre
March 2011 Supplement to the Options Disclosure Document
More government regulations! Seriously?? This is a guise to limit the average American citizens' ability to participate in a free and fair marketplace. This will further "rig the game" in favor of the big financial institutions and eliminate an important financial tool that the small average investor can use to hedge their portfolio's in adverse times. The small investor
