As a retail investor I believe the public has the right to make informed choices to invest in leveraged funds and not to have this ability restricted.
I not regulators should be able to choose the public investments that are right for you and your family. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged. Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment strategies. I use them to protect (hedge) my investments or seek enhanced returns. I use them as a limited part of my overall portfolio.
Please do not limit my ability to trade leveraged ETFs. I have made money on these trading tools in the past and if I cannot use them in the future I will not be severely limited in my time horizons for growing my investments. If you want to regulate these trading tools I would advise the regulators to require an online training certificate for new traders of these ETFs. Then the traders can
I not regulators should be able to choose the public investments that are right for you and your family.
Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged.
Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment strategies. I use them to protect (hedge) my investments or seek enhanced returns. I use them as a limited part of my overall portfolio.
FINRA, as an experienced investor (or even as a new investor), I should be able to pick what I invest in. All investors know that they have to do their own due diligence before investing/trading. Doing due diligence has kept me from investing in some leveraged or inverse funds because they weren't what I was looking to hedge or were outside of my expertise. No one had to tell me this or
I not regulators should be able to choose the public investments that are right for you and your family.
Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged.
Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment strategies. I use them to protect (hedge) my investments or seek enhanced returns. I use them as a limited part of my overall portfolio.
The last thing we small investors need are more obstacles to further limit what is available to us relative to the privileged and affluent. These regulations make an already laughably uneven playing field nearly impossible to manage.
What you will have are sitting ducks that can only move forward pitted against sophisticated investors that can move 360 degrees. Stop the madness.
People should be able to buy leveraged products in our free market. Individuals are capable of assessing risk and reward. I use these products as a limited portion of my portfolio. My investment strategy will be greatly affected if I'm no longer able to use leveraged products.
I OPPOSE RESTRICTIONS TO MY RIGHT TO INVEST,
You should look at the structure, rather than impose restrictions.
To Whom It May Concern:
I retired just over a year ago. I had no pension at work nor any other sponsored retirement plan. I had my own investments in both IRAs and non-qualified accounts. My life has not been easy because of divorce and child custody battles, bad economies over the last 20 years, a relatively low income (mostly in the $50-$60 range) and living in high cost of living areas,
