I strongly oppose any changes to regulation as it relates to leveraged products. They offer a funding mechanism for people who cant save. For an aggressive investor, they are much safer that concentrating assets in one stock, with similar volatility and results.
The market needs a diverse demographic of investors to keep the demand of the diverse stock the market has to offer. This is not an intellectual law to enforce by any regulators of any kind. This is completely from a tilted state of mind to even propose this.
There is a legitimate investment case for these funds. If you restrict these in the way you propose perhaps you should also restrict individual stock holdings; and active mutual funds. The same principals of possible risks and losses apply.
Comments:Leveraged ETFs allows me to invest in a sector, thus avoid trying to pick a stock. I am not a professional investor. I sincerely request that you not take that option away from me. Thank you. Robert George
Comments: Persons buying, investing, in leveraged funds should understand what they are buyng--which is true of any stock or ETF. If they buy without research of the fund or ETF, then they have a bigger problem that will not be solved by regulation. J. Baldwin Smith
Comments:Leveraged and Inverse ETC. I am aware of the risk involved in these vehicle and suspect that most are also aware. Please do not limit my options Stocks get extremely difficult to short. Thank you! Glenn Williams
As a retail investor, I am concerned about the fairness of the current financial system. Having read many theoretical posts on r/Superstonk about the economy and doing my own research, I believe that more regulation on shorting is necessary in order to avoid the unfair devaluation of companies and protect smaller companies from its effects. In particular, more needs to be done about Fail-to-
I have invested in various ProShares stocks for more than 7 years. I fully understand the risks. Currently, my investments in ProShares products are a small percentage of my overall investments. I would like to continue to invest in ProShares products.
No reason to tax something that is not talking away from the old box style money generated funds like stock market. As it does not take away from Big Federal Government. Keep your hands off [REDACTED].
I have been a long investor in leveraged etf for 3+ years. I dont want to be required to pass tests to continue investing in it. And if people put money into it they should be prepared to lose it whether its leveraged etf or stock as I have.
