The most fundamental ideology if the US Citizen experience is having the ability to have your own rags to riches story. It involves making your own way, picking yourself up by your bootstraps and a certain kind of grit. Really honestly what makes this any different than say a caste system? Modern day serfdom? Indentured servitude? I implore you to think long and hard about this. And I dont mean
I have traded stocks for over 35 years and one of the most important rights we have as investors is the ability to make our own decisions on what specific investment vehicles we choose to buy and sell. Regulators should not limit this ability for individuals and should instead focus on finding those individuals or corporations abusing the system. Anyone that is investing should do their own due
I like having the ability to invest in leveraged funds. I do not want this option taken away, or limited by some gate-keeper that gets to decide what I do with my money.
These are calculated risks I take and provides me choices for high growth.
I understand that we're trying to protect uninformed people, but you can't solve this by showing people pages of text before they trade
On January 31, 2022, FINRA introduced the Participant Data Management System (“PDM”) which firms now use to manage access to the FINRA trade reporting facilities, including TRACE, ORF and ADF. PDM also allows firms to add, view, and modify users of the TRAQS web interface. FINRA has published several notices to remind firms to use PDM to review their TRAQS users. As a final reminder, firms are
Hello,
I have some concern regarding the FINRA regulatory Notice #22-08. Imposing such regulation on public traded securities is not only harmful but unprecedented. I think most of the retail market can agree that it is an investors right to freely access the entirety of the public securities markets
without arbitrary restrictions is a basic entitlement. Especially with the current state of the
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently approved amendments to the Rules of Practice and Procedures for the Small Order Execution System (SOES or SOES Rules) proposed by the NASD to
Srongly believe the proposed regulations are: Bad for Investors. If the proposal is adopted, some investors who could benefit from the enhanced return and portfolio protection potential of leveraged and inverse funds could be prevented from buying them by an overly burdensome qualification process. Brokerage firms could even stop offering these funds altogether due to the difficulty of
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