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On March 4, 1992, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved amendments to Parts II and III of Schedule C to the NASD's By-Laws permitting Direct Participation Program (DPP) Limited Principals and
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In the following document, NASD Regulation, Inc. (NASD RegulationSM) requests comment on specific
FINRA plans to update the TRACE for Treasuries FIX acknowledgement messages on Monday, July 10, 2023.
Currently, FIX Tag 60 (Transact Time) timestamps support up to microsecond precision (Format: YYYYMMDD-HH:MM:SS.sss.mmm); however FIX acknowledgement messages consist of only millisecond precision (Format: YYYYMMDD-HH:MM:SS.sss). The TRACE for Treasury Securities FIX Specification
SummaryFor the past several years, FINRA has encouraged firms to keep their risk monitoring analyst informed if the firm, or its associated persons or affiliates, engaged, or intended to engage, in activities related to digital assets, including digital assets that are non-securities.1 FINRA appreciates members’ cooperation with this request and is encouraging firms to continue to keep
My investment strategy uses a systematic rebalancing of ETFs, some of which are leveraged ETFs. I fully understand the risks of these leveraged ETFs, but with a disciplined quarterly plan of selling when gains have exceeded a threshold and buying when losses have exceeded a threshold, the greater volatility of these leveraged ETFs produce better performance over the long term.
I am not a Day
- I am just a regular investor, I should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged.
- I shouldn't have to go through any special process like passing a test before I can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. I invested in options years ago. I understand
I consider these proposed rules to be yet another abridgment of a citizen's right to do with his money what he chooses. I have half a century of experience in investing in stocks and bonds of all varieties. I learned how to do it the hard way, not by taking a test, but by self-study and experimenting with various instruments. I administered 2 employee pension plans as well as my own
To whom it may Concern,
I am strongly opposed to restricting which public investments I am allowed to invest in. Being able to invest in inverse funds allows me to hedge against a decreasing market. My 401k platforms do not offer inverse investing opportunities nor do the representatives/specialists want to take or move investments when the market is moving negatively. They say don't
