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Everyone worldwide is equal. We all should have the God given right to invest our funds as we see fit for any asset.
More regulation is NOT the answer. DIY retail investors should have the same level of access to products as professionals; they’ve CHOSEN to DIY because they believe they have sufficient skill and knowledge. People don’t need to be “protected” from themselves. Give everyone EQUAL access to products instead of walling off “complex” products to institutions and elites.
Keep your big-brother controlling bull in the guise of protectiveness out of this freedom!
I think the current requirements for self-directed investors are sufficient and there should not be more restriction on people to invest their money. The underlying premise that retail investors do not know what they are doing is flawed. What we need is less control and not more. Retail investors do not want to be forced into taking services from industry professionals and want to develop their
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The SEC recently adopted Rule 15c2-6, which is effective January 1, 1990. It imposes sales-practice requirements on broker-dealers that recommend transactions in certain low-priced, non-NASDAQ over-the-counter
As a former complex product supervisor for one of the largest broker-dealers in the nation and which is probably the highest producing structured product firm, I would like to make some comments on the practices employed by them and in the industry by general. First of all the process in getting an account approved for structured notes and options is largely a joke. Anyone from an 18 year old
We are a firm of 3 people, it will be impossible for us to be able to report ANY BONDS in a 1 minute time frame. I feel that at the minimum it should 10 mins, anything shorter than that and we would probably be reporting late on a consistent basis.
November 2022
Background
In August 2021, FINRA launched a targeted exam (sweep) to review firms’ practices and controls related to the opening of options accounts and related areas, including account supervision, communications and diligence. FINRA’s review focuses on a cross-section of retail and diversified firms that offer options trading to their customers.
Below FINRA poses several