Over the past 6 months I have been investing a relatively small portion of my portfolio in leveraged inverse funds to hedge other portfolio positions.
It is difficult to understand how regulators would presume to require a 'test' or other special requirement to invest in these tools.
Certainly, leverage has risks. Certainly, stocks have risks. If you can't accept that
I have been in the market for almost 5 years now, but really started this year to learn the ins and outs of the so called “free” market. I’ve never seen such negligence by MM, Hedge funds, and the sec. yes my own government has utterly let me down. What are actual numbers on short interest of so called meme stocks. How does upwards of 60% go through dark pools that I have zero knowledge of. This
Any investor should be able to choose the public investments that are right for them. Investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged.
I find it offensive that I would have to go through any special process like passing a test before I can invest in public securities, similar to leveraged and inverse funds. The reason they are necessary in the first place is
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All of that should already be in place. Synthetic shorts are an illegal practice anyways, so reporting them would just oust the form doing them thus implicating them in a crime. But yes they should be reported; As the amount of synthetic shares could and most like does in fact dwarf the actual share count of a particular stock if the hedge funds are trying to bankrupt them. Examples being
Over the past 20 years millions of small investors have chosen to make their own investment decisions, and have invested time and money into EDUCATION. It's very clear that wealth has been consolidated .... to an unprecedented level ... and that trend is just continuing. Are leveraged and inverse ETFs risky investments? Surely they are. But with earnings (EPS) at nearly record levels,
I am adamantly against the regulations imposed re: 22-08.
"The availability of complex products and options can potentially expand the investment opportunities for retail investors and, if properly understood, offer favorable investment outcomes (e.g., enhancing returns, limiting losses or improving diversification)."
Why is there any desire to take such an offering away, or
Dear FINRA,
Public investments should be available to all of the public NOT just the PRIVILEDGED.I should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me.
I am very capable of understanding investments and the risk. I shouldn't have to go through any special process of test taking before investing in leveraged and inverse funds. I have done my own research and am very
While short positions is legal and should remain so, predatory shorting that harms American companies, it's consumers, and American investors should be abolished. Greater monitoring of the practice and regulatory enforcement to prevent it from occurring is desperately needed. "Dark Pool" trading in particular is should be illegal and have those that participate in it the subject of
