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Limiting investors choice to determine the best investments based upon their goals is unwarranted and detrimental Investors who use unique investment strategies (ie options, crypto currencies, shorts, high yield bonds, leveraged ETFs) should not have to incur an additional regulatory burden. There are many complex investments and they have been utilized by investors for decades. The
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I believe it is every American's right to have a choice in where to store, spend, and invest our hard earned money. the banking system has failed us. yielding is .05% interest while they make billions on our money is an insult and should be a crime. crypto gives me the freedom to be in control of my own money and let me put my hard earned money to work for me, garnering all the profits (
Do not restrict my right to trade in whatever product I choose. These products are 10 years or more old and I have done my own research and analysis for days and weeks total time. You were not restricting the same products when they were going up, so you should not restrict them on the way down. You will be hurting the people you are intending to help because you cannot pick and choose what
Leveraged ETF's and crypto ETN's are part of my broader strategy in hedging and incrementally fine tuning my use of leverage. Retail investors and traders like myself accept the risk that come with leveraged ETF's, and it's not up to regulators to decide how much risk retail investors should take. Retail investors are capable of understanding the risks
It is nakedly clear that the only group you stand to protect is the establishment who have a vested interest in the traditional financial markets going up and to the right indefinitely. However, as the government inflates away the value of our savings the only people who stand to gain from impending crashes are the already wealthy. Your arbitrary barriers are clearly designed to favor the wealthy
I can see your concerns, but the proposed approach it is not the proper one. It appears to be at least discriminatory and distorting. I can write many pages, but I will be very brief for two of the points: 1. Demonstrate a high net worth : This is discriminatory. The absolute value is irrelevant. What is relevant is a relative value. (If someone's net worth is $100,000 and choose to invest $
Jennifer Piorko Mitchell Office of the Corporate Secretary FINRA 1735 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20006-1506 To Whom It May Concern, Hi there. I’m Dave Nadig, Financial Futurist for ETF Trends and ETF Database. For most of the last 25 years, my job has been to help asset managers understand investors and help investors understand the products that asset managers build. Since 1993, I’ve been in
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