As a short term tool, buying inverse ETFs can be very valuable, and can actually help traders achieve financial objectives that they can not either otherwise achieve, or would require the use of riskier derivatives. Obviously, assets do not always rise, so trading just the long side means forgoing potential profit when assets decline. Also, using inverse ETFs during declining markets acts as a
To Whom it may concern,
I have concerns about proposed rule #22-08. I am private individual who has been buying and selling stocks, futures, and options for several years, and who greatly appreciates my ability to add to and hedge my portfolio in any way that the market offers. For example, buying a small amount of an inverse ETF is a quick and easy way to hedge an overly long portfolio during a
To whom it may concern, The know your customer rule, regulation BI and and the pending IRA rollover rules are sufficient to regulate investment options, advice and documentation regarding investment options, recommendations and relationships between advisors and clients. Putting further restrictions and limitations on clients access to investment products will disproportionately and negatively
Comments:I cant believe the FINRA what to interfere with the small investors making a few extra percentage points on their money. Leveraged Efts are one of the only places a small investor is on a level playing field in the marketplace.Sure theirs risk but thats what made America the land of opportunity. A Small investor can go long or short just like the futures without worrying about the
I not regulators should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me and my family. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged. I shouldn't have to go through any special process like passing a test before I can invest in public securities, like leveraged and inverse funds. I am capable of understanding leveraged and inverse funds
I have been a market professional for over 50 years, now retired). I advocate free use of levered and short (INVERSE) instruments as they offer hedging and leverage opportunities to every investor. This is needed in these volatile markets. The public are taught "never to sell" and yet we have seen several peiods in recent decades of index declines of 60+% (Nasdaq). It is vitally
Revision to Net Capital Treatment of Clearing Agreement Penalty Clauses
In the Regulatory Short Takes section of the Spring 2000 Regulatory & Compliance Alert, Volume 14-1, NASD indicated that all or a portion of the amount specified in a clearing agreement as a termination fee would be treated as a charge to the introducing firm's net capital. The Question and Answer included in
The concept of efficient markets is a joke and short selling of any sort should be illegal. I have no faith in FINRA, DTCC, SEC, etc. Any further participation in the US market on my end will be through directly registered securities outside the DTC. Self-regulating organizations are non-regulated organizations. The SEC/DTCC/FINRA should have zero links to market makers, banks, and hedge-funds,
1) make sure you receive correct data. 1a) if you don't, somehow make sure they do in penalties, that isn't pennies for short interest positions. Either make them relieve their position or ban them for trading for some time. 1b) don't let them self report giving them the option to lie. 2) ban dark pools. It does add liquidity, somehow. But at what cost? Especially with payment for
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
ATTN: Training Directors and Registration Personnel
The purpose of this notice is twofold:
Part I announces the availability in mid-March of study outlines for a revised Series 7 General Securities Representative Qualification Examination. Pending SEC approval, it is expected that this new version of the test will be introduced at the June 1986
