As an individual investor, I should be able to choose public investments without restriction. Leveraged and inverse investment vehicles are important to my investment strategy. For instance, in order to hedge long exposure in S&P 500 stocks, I might buy a call spread in the VXX ETN. I am capable of understanding these types of financial products and do not need to be tested by my
Not enough, severe penalty’s for financial institutions breaking laws or rules
Every man and woman needs to be responsible for their own choices. It's up to them weather they want to take risk or not. The government can't even keep social security solvent for the next 50 years or balance a budget, they have no business telling us how to manage our finances. maybe if there was some financial risk management and retirement investing taught in school this
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) a proposed rule change to extend the current pilot program related to FINRA Rule 11892 (Clearly Erroneous Transactions in Exchange-Listed Securities) (“Clearly Erroneous Transaction Pilot” or “Pilot”) until July 20, 2022.
To regulate L&I index funds is a grossly misguided decision. If FINRA seeks to protect investors from complex products, they should instead go after options, derivatives, short-selling, and other truly complicated financial practices. L&I funds are traded by average retail investors like me in the same manner that stocks are traded; they are simple to understand and necessary to
All investing comes with risk. By choosing to invest, we investors willingly assume that risk. Regulations should not be used as an to attempt to save unwise investors from themselves. The State allows lotteries and widespread sports betting, which inevitable causes more financial harm to unwise investors than leveraged and inverse funds. Thus, I see these proposed regulations as unnecessary
I am an individual investor, 68 years old. Over the past 10 years I taught myself about leveraged and inverse funds, using literature readily available in our city library and sponsors' websites. The operation of funds such as UVXY and SVXY is understandable to people like me without specialized financial training. I use these successfully for diversifying the return-versus-risk profile
It's time that government respect the rights of the people to determine the course of their financial affairs. To be ignorant of cryptocurrency, via block chain technology is the fault of no one else but lazy politicians. The banks are just as spiteful due the fact that decentralized peer to peer access and accounts is the best challenge to a stagnant centralized banking system. Value is
It is commonly understood that for every transaction the terms of the exchange is known by both parties and executed faithfully to produce what we consider the stock market. Technology now allows for near instant transactions for market participants, therefore the due diligence of reporting that transaction to regulatory authorities should occur simultaneously with the transaction itself. This
