Please don't limit access to the leveraged and inverse (L&I) funds. These funds are good investment tools to compliment my investment portfolio. They follow the many market indexes and therefore are more stable and non-bankruptcy prone unlike stocks. These L&I funds are less risky than investing in individual stocks because these funds have more stocks within their fund
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Options Position and Exercise Limits
Effective Date: February 28, 2005
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Hedge Exemption
Synthetic Shorts should be reported. Naked shorts are already illegal but with what we've been seeing on AMC and GME stock, and probably many many more stocks that just haven't been scrutinized like these two favorite stocks of mine. There needs to be something done to better make naked shorts "synthetic shorts" no longer performed by more than just a fine. These organizations
The rules of Finra need to be changed. They may have been created to help reduce the predatory practices of unscrupulous brokers and protect individuals from such practices, and there may be a need to protect individuals from themselves, but we each bear the responsibility of knowing what we are doing at any given time. I have traded stocks, options, futures and forex. It is a lifelong process,
In regards to questionable trading through means such as so-called "dark pools" and concerning statistics indicating a high volume of naked shorting of synthetic stocks. I am request, on behalf of many retail stock traders, that all transactions for the AMC stock reported and verified within 24 hours.
Thanks to all of you wonderful regulators stocks are extremely overvalued. So instead of putting 100% of my portfolio in stocks I put 20% in leveraged S&P 500 fund like UPRO and it performs the same as having 100% of my portfolio in stocks.
There should be no more requirements on purchasing leveraged stocks than any other stock. All stocks have an inherent risk associated with ownership and the possibility of loosing money. Leveraged securities should have no more requirements to ownership than any other security.
I don't believe these leveraged funds are riskier than any other stock, an education into the stock market is a must before you just throw money into it, but freedom means that not only can institutions be aloud to buy and sell these stocks but so should everyone else.
The fact that hedge funds can manipulate a stock with short selling stocks that are not even available is a crime that needs to be punished. This is not a new senerio but one that has been overlooked for a long time. Now millions of retail investors have realized the fraud and are demanding action. If this is not rectified the retail investor will pull out of the stock market as it is not a level
Pamela Davis , I should be able to purchase as well to whatever stocks I deem to acquire. I should not have to be tested per se or read certain materials to purchase. This is controlling and manipulative ways to not allow person who are not stock regulators to purchase stock. This is a travesty to say the least.
