Leveraged funds and ETF's are important tools to allow investors to gain market leverage at a manageable level of risk, compared to traditional methods of leverage, such as the use of margin. Investors who research and learn the appropriate use of leveraged funds are able to use them as a part of an overall portfolio and generate leverage without jeopardizing their entire net worth. In
Inverse funds are part of an important strategy for ordinary people to hedge against bear market conditions, an environment where ordinary people have very little option for protection. Do not take this option away from well educated and well informed investors.
Please do not restrict access to digital currencies.
To Whom this may concern,
We the People have every right to buy and sell shares.
You cannot take the right away from the American
I am opposed to adoption of Rule #22-08. I am not a big time investor, but I invest consistently and I think wisely using Proshares leveraged ETFs among others. I understand the long term risk of investing in these ETFs and usually do so for the very short term, I believe my participation makes for a more liquid market which I believe is the reason this country operates a capitalistic system, In
I wish to register my strong opposition to regulations being considered by FINRA that would require me, as an individual investor, to meet certain knowledge, net worth, approval, reading, or cooling off period requirements as a prerequisite to investing in certain investments.
I and other citizens are quite capable of doing our own research and making our own investment decisions. We do not need
In no way would I recommend anyone to vote to accept government restrictions on my investing. I am not a wealthy person, and I have no specialized or ultra-sophisticated trading systems. But I was able to limit the extent of my draw-downs by using ProShares Inverse funds to limit my down-side risk in both the 2000-2003 AND 2008-2009 market drops.
Government restrictions that limit my ability to
