For decades, Americans of all incomes have looked to the investment markets as an opportunity to build wealth and achieve goals such as putting their kids through college and retiring among other things. Over the years those opportunities have continued to increase with increasing levels of innovative offerings from simple stocks and bonds to mutual funds, ETF’s, IPO’s, dividends,
Being that corporate America has a grasp on the stock market and can manipulate it and you as a politician can get insiders information as to what laws are passing and what PACs entice you where to vote by way of tempting gifts. Crypto is the way I can increase my financial future. I serious hope you consider how you vote as this is what many individual investors who found the benefit of
I am writing to express my objections to the proposed regulations limiting access to leveraged/inverse ETFs/Funds. In particular the need to demonstrate a high net worth in order to purchase these assets is unnecessarily discriminatory and fails to take into account that someone without significant assets may still be able to employ a reasonable, successful and profitable strategy by using these
I would like to see the stock markets overhauled with a crypto blockchain style solution. Every share can then be tracked and identified with a unique token per coin. This could be created with specific user definable fields such as "shortable" where a user can specify whether or not his/her shares can be shorted. This could also enable a field to increment each time a share is shorted
As a retail investor I cannot say I'm happy with the whole financial system with stock market. Everything we buy and sell is reported instantly. Our positions are transparent to any market maker or institution. All we ask for is full transparency on all transactions that occur in that trading day. In today's age we should be able to track and barcode every share that is available in a
My name is Brian and I am a retail investor. I do not have a background in finance or economics and I do not have any SEC certifications. I have 3 trading accounts; a joint brokerage, an individual brokerage and an IRA. The combined balance of these accounts is about $300K. I am in my 40s and no longer hold my corporate job. I am self-employed and chose to invest my own retirement and cash/margin
Exchange-traded products (ETPs) including exchange-traded funds (ETFs), exchange-traded notes (ETNs), and commodity and currency ETPs have surged in popularity over the last decade. Risks vary for each product, with some types of ETPs exposing investors to both complexity and significant danger of losses. Volatility-linked ETPs are one such example.
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Once again regulators believe we are too dumb to use necessary products in which to grow our worth. Please provide data that confirms your belief that the products we use are too "Complex". I believe that Cryptos, legal gambling and other forms of memes and schemes pose a far greater threat than established inverse and leveraged funds. What are you doing about those?
Given that our government continues to promote low interest rate environments where elder savers are punished, inverse etfs are an excellent tool to hedge income based stock portfolios. Instead of focusing on singular market events to evaluate etf tracking error, the government should endeavor to actually study long term inverse etf tracking error and counter party risk. Leveraged etfs are
