Public investments should be the right of the person doing the investing. Why do politicians or others think they are better qualified to decide what one does with their funds to invest? If this decision is passed, it must include our elected representatives as well as John Q. Public. It is a disgrace our law makers are allowed to exclude themselves to the regulations of laws they pass for the
I am capable of understand leveraged and inverse funds and should not be made to "jump through hoops" in order to continue trading as I wish. If you must regulate access to these funds please do not target your regulations at those of us whose trading accounts clearly demonstrate we are performing in line with the market.
That being said I agree there is a problem with
Regarding FINRA Reg. Notice #22-08:
As an investor, where and how I invest my hard earned money is my business, and my business alone. I am fully capable of understanding leveraged and inverse funds with out having to prove it to regulators. These funds are very important to my investment strategies, especially in volatile times like we are currently in, in order to help me hedge my positions or
In September 2019, the Census Bureau reported that income inequality had reached its highest level in 50 years. COVID begins. Retail investors increase their participation in public markets (now 25% of total equities trading volume), destabilizing the status quo, and costing smart-money hedge funds and investment banks 10s of billions of dollars in losses. FINRAs response is to remove retails
Those of us who lost everything when the large investors were able to cause the price of TVIX to drop over 90% "after hours", which should not have been possible, is likely the cause of this regulatory notice. This was clear manipulation and someone should have to pay. It is they who need better regulation oversight, not the small investor. We still need these types of
Hello, I believe the proposed regulations would greatly and unnecessarily restrict investors, all investors, from exercising their right to freely participate in funds, inverse funds, etc.
Public securities are supposed to be public, not restricted to those who have a certain amount of net worth. Perhaps a statement about what leveraged funds and/or inuerse funds are would suffice, but to have
We should not have to go through special processes that add cost and headaches for the regular public, which does not have hired investors and lawyers to manage everything for them to get richer while restricting the common man. The United States was built on self-responsibility and do not need a nanny to tell me what investments are too risky for me, such as BITO or leveraged investments. Being
This kind of leverage is vital for investors to protect ourselves and enable us to hold stocks which we might need to sell otherwise and lose out on the capital gains tax. When stocks are down or we see them going down we can leverage with inverse tickers such as VIX and maintain our holdings which in turn creates a more stable stock market which is better for the investor and the companies and
Hello, I disagree with the proposed regulation. I believe it is up to the investor to risk his/her assets in the way he or she sees fit. Whether it makes the investing world safer or not, perhaps a lesson taught through experience rather than regulation would be a better way of allowing investors to discover what they should or should not invest in. I view these investment avenues as ways to
I think the current system of allowing financial institutions to transfer their short positions is highly ineffective and damaging to the stock market as a whole and must be stopped. If parties involved in shorting companies cannot cover their positions after failing to deliver in the already existing time periods and have passed the fail to deliver threshold list requirements I think they should
