I am against any more restrictions to my ability to trade leveraged securities. I have been fully informed of the risks involved by my broker Fidelity in these products and had to sign and submit a document stating so to Fidelity. I am fully capable of making informed decisions on my own without any further government or regulatory restrictions such as passing a written test or proving my net
My name is Ivan Zubkiv. I'm very dissappointed that the regulators are trying to eliminate my rights to chose hove I should invest and what investment I have to choose. I want to be free and have a rights to chose my self to trade what I want and in what to invest. I want to be treated as the same as every reach person or company, have the same rights and be able avoid annessesary measures
To Regulators, I shouldn't have to go through any special process like passing a test before I can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds because I have more than 40 years of stock and options trading experience in USA. I am capable of understanding those funds and their risks more than any finance professionals. It is totally against the spirit of law under democratic
To whom it may concern, I strongly oppose any potential restrictions on my ability to purchase leveraged instruments. This would be another way for the large institutions to use investment vehicles for their advantage at the expense of the smaller investor like me and put us on unequal playing ground. I do not use them as a large part of my portfolio, but use them for hedging or taking advantage
With the availability of information over the internet it is no longer reasonable to think that investors are not educated in all aspects of funds trading. Last year a group of talented amateurs was able to commit a short squeeze against major bank holdings that were too sure of their own intelligence. This clearly follows that basis to protect vested corrupt interest to the detriment of the
The only change that should be made if any is that one should be ablento take a test or quick quiz that proves knowledge of these products and then also sign an acknowledgement and the same should be done for the PDT rule. One is kidding themselves if they think changes here will protect anyone as that would imply that the regulatory body has the right to save people from themselves. They don
How can you possibly think that leveraged ETFs are more risky than options trading? Leveraged ETFs are easy to understand and can be understood just by reading the prospectus. Options on the other hand have various factors that need to be accounted for, the majority of which common investors do not understand. As it stands today, investors must already acknowledge the risk of leveraged etf
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As a retail investor, I believe all of the proposed changes should be enacted. Transparency is a requirement for our markets to remain fair and free. Gamestop had a short interest of 140% of the float at one point in December 2020/January 2021 which lead to the WallStreetBets short squeeze and subsequent trading restrictions because of systemic risk. If the short interest had been reported on a
Thank you for your time. Currently as it stands, there is too little information in true short positions. With a market makers ability to create synthetic shares for “liquidity”, at some point the true positions need to be accounted for. If a bank, a market maker, and or other parties can hide positions through layered securities like CDOs or swaps, there is no benefit to the market, only the
