Public Investments should be between the investor and the financial firm associated. The risks associated with investing are well known and explained by financial firms. Personal investments and retirement plans are controlled by the investor and investment retirement planners and critical to the investment success and well being of all. Based on Historical experience, especially lately,
I have been studying the financial markets for the last forty years. And use a measured approach in using leveraged ETFs. On highly liquid ETFs they are a very affective tool for investing and hedging positions.
Leveraged ETFs already carry warnings.
I don't appreciate further infringements on my right to make financial decisions.
I'm sure FINRA has plenty to do without
I strongly oppose any regulation limiting my choice in public or private investments. There should be no 'test' to invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. I am capable of making my own financial decisions, and reject additional government interference regarding my finances. I implore you to not impose additional measures prohibiting my decision to invest
SEC Approves Amendments to TRACE Reporting Requirements and Dissemination of Agency Pass-Through Mortgage-Backed Securities Traded To Be Announced and Related Fees
1. The most neglected field in investor education is equity market manipulation. New retail investors should be informed about perpetual option fail-to-delivers, married-puts, shorting via exchange-traded-funds, off-exchange trading and selling synthetic shares to manipulate a stock's price. 2. From a retail investor's perspective: An open forum where individual users can share investor
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Each year, FINRA publishes its Annual Regulatory and Examination Priorities Letter to highlight issues of importance to FINRA's regulatory programs.
Cover Letter From FINRA President and CEO, Robert Cook
January 8, 2018
As is our practice, we are marking the start of the new year by publishing our
Talking about money issues can be stressful. Talking about them while a service member is deployed to a remote location can be more so.
I beg you to keep the complex products, leveraged ETFs, options on the table for us retail investors. As a retail investor that has had to suffer through the 1999, 2008, and 2020 crashes, I cannot make up ground to retirement without more complex financial instruments. If I don't have ways to access options and ETFs in my IRA I am not going to take a big financial hit long term.
Comment on SEC Proposed Rule #S7-24-15: I am a retail investor who has used leveraged ETF's for the past 12 years. I do not trade in these instruments but have purchased them over time, and have continued to hold them (all for at least five years). I monitor them daily and evaluate my portfolio vs the major indices on a weekly basis. I have included them initially at about 20% of my overall
To whom this may concern, Please do not restrict the access of the average investor into market funds. Some of those under consideration are incredibly useful to new investors who choose to risk smaller amounts during a learning phase of the market. These proposed changes will significantly increase the barrier of entry to the average American in achieving their financial goals. Americans should
