I have been managing my own investments for 35 years. I was trained at the graduate level to do this, but was never employed in the financial services industry.
Leveraged and inverse, open and closed funds, are useful instruments. In appropriate circumstances, I use these instruments. They are especially helpful for generating routine income (in retirement) and setting up hedges.
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Hello,
As someone who has used leveraged ETFs quite successfully over many years I absolutely do not support any additional regulations or restrictions on individual investors using leverage, futures, options, or any other manner of "complex" instruments as part of a self-directed investment strategy.
I actively researched and educated myself on these financial instruments
NASD 2002 Renewals Program
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
FINRA,
I am strongly opposed to regulations being considered to limit the ability of the public to invest in leveraged and inverse funds without such things as passing tests on investment knowledge, demonstrating high net worth, getting approval from a broker, attesting to reading certain materials, and going through "cooling off periods" during which one cannot invest.
To whom it may concern, I am writing in support of the proposed changes applied in Reg. Notice 21-19. Particularly as an individual investor in the US financial markets, I am strongly in support of daily aggregation of short interest reporting. I strongly support increased granularity to the account level position reporting. I am adamantly in support of increasing comprehensive synthetic short
Everything should be reported daily. it is now 2021... There is no reason there is a "T+ anything" for reporting. It's all tabulated via computer and should be available immediately for review... these rules are ancient and do not reflect the level automation we are surrounded by in our everyday lives... I can make an ACH deposit from a bank across the world and have it show up in
We absolutely need more transparency in the market. As more and more retail investors are joining the market, many of them are learning that they don't have access to the same information or ability to perform actions within the market that some of the huge institutions and market makers do. Naked shorting, dark pool trading, payment for order flow, etc. are all things that when examined at
(1) Lately I have seen time after time (failure to delivers) FTDS hit outrageous and unprecedented numbers SEC has fined market makers in some instances fractional fines of a percent to continue doing business. If this kind of activity is allowed, can I turn do the same? I would be more than glad to do the same if their's no disciplinary actions against this. (2) Naked shorting is illegal.
It is of utmost importance that people have the full freedom to deploy their money into whatever they want without major obstructions.
As it is, to protect investors, ETFs already have disclaimers, which spell out the risks. In addition, some broker accounts won't even let investors buy some ETFs or penny stocks unless the risk profile is set to be "aggressive".
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