While I understand that this RFC is for members to provide feedback, I would like to provide some general comments as an individual investor who makes extensive use of geared ETFs. Accordingly, most of my comments are "geared" towards them (sorry, had to!). For your consideration:
1. There is no relationship or similarity between the various products outlined in this RFC.
An investment's performance is more than just the amount a stock, bond or mutual fund has appreciated since you bought it. If you want to make informed investment decisions, you should learn how to calculate your return on investment, or ROI.
Restricting purchasing/selling of inverted or leveraged ETFs is pretty much equal to stoping regular people from the opportunity to earn income in stock trading. Leaving this privilage to only "professionals" or traders with huge capital will hugely increase the gap between rich and poor and will make poor suffer more.
People who doesn't understand the nature of such
I should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me. Public investments should be available to the public. I shouldn't have to go through any special process to be able to invest in these securities. Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment strategy and allow me to trade broader sectors with less exposure and capital investment. I understand the
I am of the strong opinion that individual investors should be able to make their own decisions on the vehicle they choose to invest in. It should not be governed by ones net worth, passing of a test or any other qualifications..if so you are limiting the ability to invest in these instruments to the top few you are once again taking away the ability of the small investor to invest/risk their
The ability to invest how ppl want to invest it critical. I use inverse or leveraged inverse funds to mitigate my stock exposure during volatile times without having to sell stocks and pay capital gains. Eliminating my ability will cost me money as well as restrict my freedom. I strongly encourage you to scrap these unnecessary plans.
(a) Definitions
The following terms shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the stated meanings:
(1) Aggregate Exercise Price — The term "aggregate exercise price" means the exercise price of an option contract multiplied by the number of units of the underlying security covered by such option contract.
(2) Call — The term "call" means an option contract under
(a) Definitions
The following terms shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the stated meanings:
(1) Aggregate Exercise Price — The term "aggregate exercise price" means the exercise price of an option contract multiplied by the number of units of the underlying security covered by such option contract.
(2) Call — The term "call" means an option contract under
I am a fairly new retail investor who got into the market with an interest at the time I saw as positive and opportunistic. After experiencing, first hand, how the market actually works and facilitates abusive naked short selling - that interest has turned into cynicism. What I would like to see, personally, is FINRA to enforce existing rules in a manner that actually seeks to stop market abuse.
As a former complex product supervisor for one of the largest broker-dealers in the nation and which is probably the highest producing structured product firm, I would like to make some comments on the practices employed by them and in the industry by general. First of all the process in getting an account approved for structured notes and options is largely a joke. Anyone from an 18 year old
