Effective Date: February 1, 1994
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Executive Summary
On November 10, 1993, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved an amendment to Subsection (b)(7)(C) to Article III, Section 44 of the Rules of Fair Practice clarifying that the exemptions from the filing requirements of the NASD
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If enacted the proposed restrictions of FINRA Regulatory Notice #22-08 would reduce my ability to hedge and thereby would INCREASE the risk in my portfolio. The proposed regulation is another example of cognitive biases in the actions of regulatory agencies. In this case the main ones, among others, being the Illusion of Explanatory Depth, or IOED, and Regulatory bias.
I am certainly
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In the United States, each individual should and have the right to be responsible for ones own decisions regarding his/her own life matters, including ones assets and possessions. Everyone ought to be able to invest in all public securities, since they are to the public. Diversify ones portfolio is a balanced way to invest. Leveraged and inverse funds are part of the vehicles to diversity, which
Leveraged funds can be very useful for certain goals. There is nothing necessarily optimal about the 1x leverage an investor would obtain using a typical index fund such as SPY. For some investors/situations, less than 1x leverage is better and for others, greater than 1x leverage is better. Hence restricting the public's access to leveraged funds could be detrimental to those whose risk
What happened to FREEDOM?
Why is my FREEDOM so regulated?
These rules are not that of a free market.
I understand leveraged funds are more risk and with that risk comes responsibility, just like alcohol. Like alcohol you can do one drunk mistake that could upheave your life, people can lose all their savings in the stock market; Anyone trading and investing in the market fully understands this,
Comments: Dear FINRA, I have been investing in stocks and options for over 30 years and have used leveraged or inverse products for the last 20 years. The proposed regulations and or guardrails for what you call complex products would undoubtedly disrupt the existence of these products and future development of these products. L&I ETF's have given me the opportunity to
Dear FINRA regulators,
I think you have a very difficult task with balancing the need for fairness in securities markets while making sure that bad actors do not prey on unsuspecting individual investors.
I think it is fair to say that leveraged products should not be an investors first choice as a core portfolio product, but I've noticed that many seasoned investors, such as Bill Miller
We not regulators should be able to choose the public
investments that are right for us and our family.
Public investments should be available to all of the public,
not just the privileged.
Not only do we have the right to share our views,
but the regulators are required to take our comments into
consideration in deciding whether to move forward.
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Dear FINRA Regulators:
I use Public Investments as a tool to build my financial future and that of my family. As an investor I want to have all options available to me and they should be available to others too, at any time, with no restrictions whatsoever. I want to have the right to choose freely what Public Investments to use in my portafolio and assume full responsibility for my investment