This is not the 1940s Papa, education, and information are very accessible. Connections are made faster and with more abundance than ever before. It is absolutely insane that I even have to write this when I can drive 30 minutes to a casino and gamble every dollar away. The hypocrisy is legendary and once again it's 2022 we can see through all the non-sense. If investments are the way every
I find it reprehensible that you would try to limit my ability to invest as an individual. I use inverse funds and futures to build income on the downside and if you limit my access to those products you will be limiting my ability to continue to build my portfolio and bring in income when the market falls.
I don't understand the desire or need to regulate people's freedom. You
Hello,
As someone who has used leveraged ETFs quite successfully over many years I absolutely do not support any additional regulations or restrictions on individual investors using leverage, futures, options, or any other manner of "complex" instruments as part of a self-directed investment strategy.
I actively researched and educated myself on these financial instruments
I have been managing my own investments for 35 years. I was trained at the graduate level to do this, but was never employed in the financial services industry.
Leveraged and inverse, open and closed funds, are useful instruments. In appropriate circumstances, I use these instruments. They are especially helpful for generating routine income (in retirement) and setting up hedges.
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Dear FINRA Regulators:
I use Public Investments as a tool to build my financial future and that of my family. As an investor I want to have all options available to me and they should be available to others too, at any time, with no restrictions whatsoever. I want to have the right to choose freely what Public Investments to use in my portafolio and assume full responsibility for my investment
FINRA,
I am strongly opposed to regulations being considered to limit the ability of the public to invest in leveraged and inverse funds without such things as passing tests on investment knowledge, demonstrating high net worth, getting approval from a broker, attesting to reading certain materials, and going through "cooling off periods" during which one cannot invest.
On March 16, 2023, FINRA published responses to frequently asked questions concerning the MMTLP corporate action and trading halt (March 16, 2023, MMTLP FAQ). In that corporate action, the issuer decided that MMTLP shares would be cancelled and investors in those shares would receive a distribution of shares of Next Bridge Hydrocarbons, Inc. (Next Bridge). FINRA has continued to receive questions regarding the circumstances surrounding these events. In particular, some have questioned the level of short selling in MMTLP and suggested that there was a substantial amount of “counterfeit shares.” Although it is not clear what is meant by the term “counterfeit shares,” it has been used in social media when discussing “naked” short selling in a security and failures-to-deliver (FTDs). Some investors have expressed concern that, even though their brokerage account statements include shares of Next Bridge in their account, these shares may not have actually been delivered to their broker-dealer.
It is of utmost importance that people have the full freedom to deploy their money into whatever they want without major obstructions.
As it is, to protect investors, ETFs already have disclaimers, which spell out the risks. In addition, some broker accounts won't even let investors buy some ETFs or penny stocks unless the risk profile is set to be "aggressive".
When
Exemptive relief is granted based on: the representation that the acquiring firm did not engage in the soliciation of business and the individual was not, at the time, considered to be an MFP as defined; the acquiring firm did not have knowledge of the contribution and the contribution has been returned; the municipal securities business relationships of the acquired firm were long standing and existed prior to the contribution; the firm has instituted extensive information barriers on certain municipal business communications; the individual involved will be prohibited from the solicitation of new municipal securtiies business for a period of time.
Dear FINRA Committee Members, Please do not impose trading restrictions on “Complex Products.” I am a retired public employee who has been investing for over 25 years, managing a ROTH account, 457 plan account, as well as a retail account. I sometimes use ETFs, including inverse and leveraged. They are an integral part of my investing toolbox. I am not a high net worth individual and desire to
