I an very opposed to any regulatory limits on my current abilities to participate in complex ETFs and investments.
I have been involved with these investments for many years and am familiar with their risks and do not need any extra regulations to guide me. Placing these limits will significantly impact my retirement planning and financial future.
Please desist from imposing them.
Leveraged ETFs have become a very important part of my portfolio and retirement plan. They provide cheap, accessible leverage for normal investors like me, and without them I would be unable to utilize leverage in my situation. I fully understand the risks and use them as part of a larger, unleveraged, diversified portfolio, and Im sure many others do the same.
As an individual investor, I find leveraged funds essential to my long-term financial plans. While I understand that such funds can be harmful to those who do not have discipline or training to use them well, many other individual investors like me use them profitably. Please do not curtail our freedom to use leveraged or inverse funds.
The ability to invest how ppl want to invest it critical. I use inverse or leveraged inverse funds to mitigate my stock exposure during volatile times without having to sell stocks and pay capital gains. Eliminating my ability will cost me money as well as restrict my freedom. I strongly encourage you to scrap these unnecessary plans.
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I strongly believe that leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment plans and I use them as a limited part of my overall portfolio.
Do not restrict or make it more difficult for me to make my own decision as to whether or not I invest in them. In fact, I have done quite well in using them to create wealth. I want to be able to continue to choose these investments!
Leveraged security and option instruments are important components of both my short and long term investment plans. Over-regulating these financial instruments could potentially cause great financial harm and substantially reduce future returns. Limiting investments to only individuals of high net worth seems to be against the Equal Protection Clause established by the 14th Amendment to the US
I have been successfully trading in leveraged ETFs for over a decade. I had not been able to save much for retirement but the leveraged ETFs have allowed me to catch up on the shortfall in a meaningful and substantive way. The use of leveraged ETFs is the very foundation of my trading methods. Eliminating effective tools from the market will be devastating to my plans and hope for a comfortable
I should be able to choose the public investments that are right for you and your family. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged. I am well educated on how and where to invest. I understand leveraged and inverse funds and their risks and rewards. I am planning investment accordingly. Such funds are important to my investment strategies, this should
