Last Updated: March 11, 2024Dispute Resolution Services (DRS) is publishing this guidance to remind parties and their representatives, arbitrators, and mediators that the unauthorized disclosure of a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) is a violation of federal law that may be punishable by civil and criminal penalties. As described in greater detail below, three categories of “SAR Information”—SARs
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I am writing because I appose the pending regulations restricting who can invest in leveraged and inverse funds and I oppose limitations on your investments.
The new rules and regulations are very unfair. These new regulations will deny me the freedom to choose investments that could help you achieve long-term financial security.
The new regulations are arbitrary. FINRAs definition of
I am writing because I appose the pending regulations restricting who can invest in leveraged and inverse funds and I oppose limitations on your investments. The new rules and regulations are very unfair. These new regulations will deny me the freedom to choose investments that could help you achieve long-term financial security. The new regulations are arbitrary. FINRAs definition of complex
Every year, millions of seniors become victims of financial exploitation, resulting in billions of dollars in personal losses. Protection of senior investors is a top priority for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and is the focus of several rules intended to thwart financial exploitation.
Give your standard disclosures. Bring back the short sale rule! Keep the auto close for severe drops on the indexes. Go after the cook the book companies, and the insider trading crooks but do not deny the independent traders,investors or institutional financial firms the ability to hedge or out gain the standard index. The great thing about the United States is that one can take risk to possibly
I am currently a small investor, living off the income I earn actively investing. Leveraged and Inverse Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) are an important part of my investing strategy and income.
It has not taken me much time at all to learn how to use Leveraged and Inverse ETFs as part of my investing strategy. Concepts like decay, the effects of leveraging and daily resetting seem as easy to grasp
It is elitist and violates freedom of choice to prevent an investor to do what he or she wants with his or her money, and why does FINRA pretend to know best, which is extremely paternalistic? The securities laws already preclude non accredited investors from participating in private placements, which provides more opportunity for the wealthy. All these preventative rules do that prevent is
Leveraged and inverse funds are a hedging tool when I think put option premiums are expensive and/or I am unable to directly short a stock or ETF in my retirement accounts. I also use them to make speculative directional bets where I deem appropriate. Position size is always key in volatile products ,that is just common sense from the offset, or quickly learned by actual trading experience...
Dear FINRA,
The recent democratization of investing, manifest in the rise of the retail investor, ability to trade fractions of shares, and the ability for retail investors to invest in a variety of financial instruments, has offered middle and low income people the greatest opportunity to save, invest, and build wealth. We cannot take steps back when it comes to giving people the liberty to
