I have over 20 years of investing/trading/option buying and selling experience and 10 years using leveraged funds. I am opposed to any investment restrictions. It is up to us individuals to manage our money properly, educate ourselves on investing, limit risk, and choose the right investment that fits our income or net worth. Some people may choose to gamble on high leverage investments, but
I am shocked and surprised that in a free world, attempts are made to restrict our citizens from trading what investment they are allowed to buy.
It is my right to choose which public investment is right for me, and all public investments shall be offered to everyone not just the privileged ones.
Every citizen should have this right and nobody should restrict this right. It should not be that I
Comments: I regularly trade inverse funds. I don't find them "complex" at all. Inverse funds are short which ever index they cover and go up when that index goes down. As I am a very small trader it is the safest and easiest way to short the market. If you take this away from me I will have to short individual stocks which is much more risky due to factors involved
I have been investing for myself for many years now, and I believe it is MY RESPONSIBILITY to understand the risks of investing. Let's be honest here - anyone who invests or even paper trades knows they can lose money, it's the first rule learned. Please stop trying to pretend you are acting on our best interests by restricting our access to important tools needed to manage risk
I OPPOSE RESTRICTIONS TO MY RIGHT TO INVEST!
While the situations cited in Regulation 22-8 (involving money loss by trusting individuals) surely are disheartening, imposing regulations on the general public is not the answer. When I began trading in complex investmentments online, a warning appeared before I could purchase and I had to sign paperwork stating that I understood the risks. I feel
I have my own right to decide which product I want to invest. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged.
I shouldn't have to go through any special process like passing a test before you can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. I got a PhD majored in computational finance and I understand leveraged and inverse funds and
I believe it would be a mistake to reduce access to these popular and useful short to medium term trading funds. There is more than enough information in the market web sites on how to use a x3 fund. Extreme risk lies only on a " black swan" event and these events pose similar risks to all investors. I believe that I have benefited from my use of x2 & x3 funds on the SP500. It
This SEC proposed rule is wholly unnecessary, it does nothing but restrict retail traders with lower net worths from making the same fair trades as those with higher net worths. A rule that seeks to restrict access to investment vehicles using net worth is in fact not a rule. It is a barrier, not unlike a fee, that the middle class must struggle to obtain before theyre allowed to engage by the
No one needs this to be regulated.. some people would prefer not to use inverse funds rather than options.
Your job is not to protect us from these vehicles. I use inverse etfs and have for the last 15 years. They are a productive tool.
It is a persons own responsibility to know your own risks and not necessary to have a big brother. If a person is willing to take the risk of investing they
Go ahead and regulate whether I'm smart enough to invest my own money. Take away the inverse ETF's and leveraged funds, but please let me have access to insider trading like the rest of you crooked politicians. Or maybe just send the rest of us every day Americans to prison like you did to Martha Stewart. OR you can let legislation pass that allows us to take our social security
