Hi - I think the new regulations you propose around leveraged ETFs are misguided and I'm hoping you reconsider. I love these ETFs and they work exactly as advertised, and I take responsibility for any losses I incur. Options are way more leveraged than these 3x ETFs and the rules you propose to put in place are way more onerous than the existing rules brokers have for options. I simply
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
Comments: I read the FINRA document and as a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry and held numerous FINRA registrations and licenses throughout my career I find this document to be a gross overreach of government regulation and intrusion into my personal financial decisions.
FINRA needs to be focused on educating investors, requiring adequate & appropriate risk
Comments on Regulatory Notice 22-08 I am a self-directed retail user of investing products that is approaching retirement. I do not have a finance background per se, but I have a PhD in engineering with a career revolving around probabilistic risk assessment, and financial concepts translate well. I am not necessarily representative of the “typical” self-directed investor that the regulatory
Dear Officer,
As a retail individual investor I found that the leveraged ETFs enhances our ability to have more returns with acceptable risk. Although it can lead to losses in downturns and choppy market conditions, overall I find it a useful tool for parts of the portfolio. I request you to not take them away from us as it will lead to more asymmetrical privileges for people who already have
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I am an adult. I, not regulators, can decide what investments are right for me. No tests or proof of a "high net worth" are necessary to determine the appropriateness of where and how I invest my money. Why should only the wealthy have the freedom to invest their funds as desired? My success in investing in leveraged and inverse funds is important to my overall financial strategy, and
I want to firmly protest the proposed restrictions on inverse trading being considered. Concise cautions for inverse funds are appropriate as is regulatory oversight to prevent fraud in their operation as should be applied to all financial instruments. In my dealings regarding inverse funds precautions are already supplied by the funds themselves and the brokerages like Charles Schwab that
Sec. 7.6 FINRA Regulation may secure the fidelity of any or all of its officers, agents, or employees by bond or otherwise.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2008-046 eff. Nov. 6, 2008.
Amended by SR-NASD-97-71 eff. Jan. 15, 1998.
Exemptive relief is granted based on the following factors: (1.) prior to Name's contribution, Firm X maintained a thorough and comprehensive set of procedures reasonably designed to ensure compliance with the Rule; (2.) the Firm had no knowledge of Name's contribution; (3.) once Firm X learned of Name's contribution, it took all available steps to return of the contribution; (4.) Firm X took appropriate remedial or preventive measures.
