Dear Regulators:
I have been an investor in various markets for more than 50 years with experience ranging from stocks, bonds, and mutual funds to ETFs, commodities, real estate, complex financial instruments, and, most recently, crowd funding offerings. I understand, accept, and limit the risks of my investments. I should not be limited in my investments or be required to take creative means
PLEASE< PLEASE< PLEASE DO NOT TAKE MY ABILITY AWAY TO BUY AND SELL LEVERAGED/INVERSED PRODUCTS. My Social Security Benefits does not pay me nearly enough to live off of. I am 68 years old and have been investing/trading for 22 years without a personal broker. I feel public investments should be available to all of the public,
I invest in stocks and ETFs (BOTH LONG AND SHORT
I think I can choose the public investments, that are right for me and my family. I can understand leveraged and inverse funds and their risks. Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment strategies. they help my protect (hedge) my investments or seek enhanced returns.I use them as a limited part of my overall portfolio. I have many years of experience in investing in stocks, ETFs
I think I can choose the public investments, that are right for me and my family.
I can understand leveraged and inverse funds and their risks.
Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment strategies. they help my protect (hedge) my investments or seek enhanced returns.I use them as a limited part of my overall portfolio.
I have many years of experience in investing in stocks,
Hello FINRA, I regularly trade leveraged products. I would like to continue doing so, however, I do think that some of these products should go away. In particular 3X inverse products. Not because I want stocks to go up, but these products decay rapidly when implied volatility increases, which happens when the market goes down, so they can never meet their investment objectives. An easy example
I have heard that FINRA is seeking to put restrictions on investors, particularly individual investors, from buying into inverse funds or leveraged funds. I am an individual investor and having been using leveraged and inverse funds for more than 10 years. I am quite capable of doing my own research and understanding the risks. In the current market environment using these types of funds is a
FINRA - I understand that you feel a need to protect investors from some of the potential pitfalls of leveraged ETFs. I urge you to approach this topic with caution, however. Face it, risk is the foundation of investing and the entire field is fraught with potential pitfalls, interpretation, influence and missteps. There are no guarantees and, effectively, no real reliable sources of information
Year after year, as I find ways to increase my net worth and diversify my portfolio, regulators seem to step in and take away more and more tools from my personal finance toolbox. It's really frustrating and, with each new regulation, it seems as though only the currently wealthy and high net worth individuals are able to pursue high risk/high return strategies. I understand the risks and
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New uniform provisions regarding the exercise cut-off rules for expiring equity options will become effective commencing with the February 1995 expiration at each of the five registered national options exchanges and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc, (the SROs).1 This
NASD has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission") a proposed rule change to amend NASD Rule 5100 to allow members to use, for a transitional period only, the Nasdaq Exchange best (inside) bid rather than the national best (inside) bid for purposes of application of the rule. Pursuant to SR-NASD-2005-087, Rule 5100 will become effective on the
