Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment strategy. It's a convenient way to short a group of stocks or bonds. It's much more difficult and risky to short individual stocks as a retail investor. Please don't take away my rights as a small investor.
I find the idea of restricting access to financial tools extremely offensive. The market is built around the concept of public availability. Restricting access to certain stocks or tools simply because an elite few deem them unfit for the unwashed masses is egotistical and morally reprehensible. Please do not create a private walled garden around inverse and leveraged funds. Consider the scenario
Please continue to let the small retail investors trying to build their retirement funds when the markets begin to fall, continue to trade inverse and multi-leveraged funds. IRA accounts are not allowed to short stocks and can't get margin for shorting so when markets go down so fast and stops are not always in place, we become "bag holders" in many good company stocks but because
Please look into the manipulation that is hurting retail investors in the AMC and GameStop stocks. The short selling and dark look trading on these stocks is absolutely out of control and prevents a true free market for retail investors.
Please do not block us from trading any stock I want, I feel that I should have my own right & freedom to chose where I want to invest and I dont like being restricted. So please do not add any restrictions to buy any stock.
For a mechanism that is designed to drop the price, why is is shorting permitted whilst the price is already dropping? This does not feel like a mechanism for price discovery, rather a way to force the price down, triggering stop losses from people trying to manage risk. If someone truly believes that the price will drop, let them short during the uptick only. Let there be a central database
Naked short selling and the black market should be illegal. Every share should have a specific number assigned, tracked and allocated for daily. Each share should only be borrowed for a short position one time, using the specific number assigned. Once the borrower share is returned, only then can it be used again. Short positions should never exceed the actual number of shares that exist for any
A market is based on supply and demand. A stock market is based on supply and demand. The price on the stock market is normally made by buying and selling shares. Shorting is something else... like someone wants to see a company go bankrupt. In my view this is not the case if investing and the US need to stop allowing shorting. The short interest should not be self reported. That doesn’t make any
The stock market is in a difficult situation now because of war and inflation. After May 4th, the stock market is expected to rise in the short term. There have been many difficulties this year, but I think it will recover a lot.I oppose restrictions on my right to invest in public investments.
Investing in Proshares is easier and less riskier than individual stocks that are easily manipulated by Wall Street algorithms. In case regulators seriously want to protect investors, then abolish shorting activity from stocks and market so this casino activity triggered by Wall Street can be stopped.
