Subject: Investors ability to trade "complex products" - including leveraged and inverse funds (L&I Funds)
Dear Regulators,
I am Janakiraman Chandrasekaran, 59 years old and I like to voice my opinion regarding your proposal on limiting access to Leveraged and Inverse ETFs (complex products).
Educated Investor: I like to inform you that I am an educated investor in
My first impression of this proposal is that it is a reaction to activities of individuals during the recent pandemic. Those who followed Wall Street Bets chasing meme stocks succumbed to, as Glenn Frey wrote in Smugglers Blues, "The lure of easy money is a very strong disease." As such the cure for such affliction would be better found with "Gamblers Anonymous"
I have been invesing since 1960 in 8th grade when I bought 1 shares of US Seel and 2 shares of Poliroid. US Steel didnt turn out to well but on 2 shares of Poliroid which spit 4 for 1 and then 2 for 1 made about $600 on $120 investment. I have been investing eversince thru corrections , Bull runs and crashes. In the 2008 financial crisses lost 90% because HF's and banks stacked the deck on
Dear FINRA,
As a retail investor, I was shocked to learn of the potential move to limit my access to financial products that have been available on public markets for years. I find the prospect of my ability to invest my money being limited simply because I am not a "high net worth" individual extremely upsetting, and I urge you to not restrict products deemed complex.
If I
Dear regulators,
I believe, the US is a free country and it should be my choice of what I want to invest into and what not, not you. I originally came from a communist country where the government and regulators controlled and regulated every citizens' life. You are starting to remind me of those days.
Why are you going to punish responsible investors like me for a few irresponsible and
I am an individual investor who has invested for several years in a variety of securities, mutual funds and ETF's, including leveraged and inverse funds. My brokerage firm already requires me to confirm that I have read various warnings about and understand the risks of these investment vehicles. I consider them a USEFUL and CONVENIENT investment tool in a whole toolbox of investment
Im strongly against restrictions on my right to invest in public investments. Ive invested an appropriate portion of my portfolio in leveraged and inverse funds to enhance my returns and to hedge, when necessary, for decades and its worked well for me. Ive known the potential risks and rewards from day one from any and all investments I invest in. I enjoy reading prospectus and thats what theyre
I, Ronald Foltz object to and oppose your unnecessary and potentially intrusive legislation attempting to regulate, reduce and/or eliminate my ability to choose how, when and where I am able to invest my own money earned and subsequently with taxes removed. Im a blue collar worker (a truck driver). I work hard and a substantial sum of hours for my money. I already devote a fair amount of time to
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