1st of all I was a 30 yr account executive/financial advisor. inverse and leveraged investments are an important tool to counter volatility in your portfolio during extreme market conditions and over valuations. As I have seen in the past that 10 years of earnings can be erased in 2 months. We need these funds to insure our financial well being especially in retirement years. We can't
I use 3X ETFs (TQQQ and SOXL) in my standard long term investing strategy has it provides compounding of my assets. It has outperformed most other ETFs over the past 10 years and I have held on through down turns. They are a tax efficient means of saving for retirement. In addition, during times of appreciation I sell a small portion to fund expenses and provide donations to charities. These ETFs
I do not want regulators to limit the use of inverse and leveraged funds to the general public. This would limit my ability to invest using my retirement accounts, in which other investment strategies are not allowed, such as options and short selling. If these funds are straight forward to investors through the prospectus and following current regulations, no other measures should be imposed on
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to amend the FINRA Rule 6800 Series, FINRA’s compliance rule (“Compliance Rule”) regarding the National Market System Plan Governing the Consolidated Audit Trail (the “CAT NMS Plan” or “Plan”) to be consistent with certain exemptions from the
Finra needs to fine those manipulating the rules to make more profit that the fine costs. Manipulators need to pay greater than the profits of the manipulation. Because where do their profits come from? Stealing from retail and retirement. And finra is complicit. So get ready to lose it all when GameStop leaves and paves the way to get away from the thievery that you are a part of. Wall Street.
In Regulatory Notice 23-17, FINRA announced its decision, effective November 30, 2023, to discontinue collecting INSITE data, pursuant to Rule 4540, at this time. As a result, effective November 30, 2023, the Customer Debits Report was retired from the FINRA Report Center. Any questions may be directed to Demetrios (J) Koutros, Vice President, Member Supervision Operations, Procedures
In Regulatory Notice 23-17, FINRA announced its decision, effective November 30, 2023, to discontinue collecting INSITE data, pursuant to Rule 4540, at this time. As a result, effective November 30, 2023, the Canceled and As-Of Trades Report was retired from the FINRA Report Center. Any questions may be directed to Demetrios (J) Koutros, Vice President, Member Supervision Operations, Procedures
Please stop restricting investors from gaining access to ETFs with complex strategies including leverage and shorting sectors, stocks, commodities, etc. Increasing regulation just empowers the wealthy and financial organizations to be the only ones that can benefit from more diverse financial strategies which are needed especially now. I have built my retirement because of access to a broad range
As a former financial advisor of 44 years (now retired), I would like to strongly protest additional regulatory restrictions on the use of leveraged or inversed funds, beyond the regulations that are currently in place. The new proposed regulations are an example of regulatory over-reach and are not needed.
I am pleased and proud of the fact that I never experienced any client complaints during
Dear FINAR, I have been investing leveraged funds like TQQQ, UPRO, UDOW, SOXL,FAS for years. When they were held for long term, these type funds deliver extraordinary results for retail investors like me. As a wager earner and an average American , I see these type funds are only hope to get me to retirement. There are many bad risk assets in you list. The ones I mentioned are not. They are good
