I disagree with further retail investor limitations. There are countless resources available for retail investors to utilize in order to learn about leveraged ETFs and other complex investments. Additionally, these investments pose no greater financial risk than any other individual stock investment, which, if the last 2 years have shown us anything, can be even more volatile than cryptocurrency/
I've been investing in the stock markets, bond market, I've traded options and futures as well as currencies for 4 decades, and I do not want to be limited in any way as it relates to investing for example in the stock market if I decide I want to leverage long or short positions or use inverse funds to reach my investment goals. I've been doing this for over 40 years now, and I
I should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me and my family. Leveraged and inverse funds are important to our investment strategies. Leveraged etfs will run well with enhanced return if the trend is up whereas inverse ETFs help to protect our investments during market correction and downtrend. Hence, public investments, especially hedging, should be available to all of
The Manipulative Trading topic of the 2025 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
Hello whoever is reading this, hope your day is going well. I am a young investor with a few years experience actively trading and learning about financial products. Even though you're looking at making changes to how a wide range of complex derivate products are regulated, but I would like to talk specifically on leveraged products as they are what I am most familiar with. I'll refer
As a RIA for over 20 yrs I have seen my fair share of shorting and have done it with some equities in special cases for aggressive clients. I am a small independent RIA that uses a combination of ETFs and individual stocks in the management of my clients funds. I can tell you flat out that the system of clearing and reporting short sales is completely broken. This is especially true with small,
On my journey to investing in the stock market and am finding out that groups of Hedge funds have been manipulating stocks for their own and client’s personal gain. Where shorting a stock can be useful to help companies provide liquidity and entice investors, shorting companies to bankruptcy is not. In fact to bankrupt a company in order to make naked shorts disappear (and hence any
1) Profiting from company failures is immoral. 2) The practice is damaging because it artificially lowers stock prices. 3) It's a privileged investment tactic that is not available to everyday investors. 4) Short sellers manipulate the market, by conspiring. 5) short selling has turned into illegal / naked / phantom shorting shares millions times over resulting in FTDs, fake stock pricing,
The average investor in the United States is kept woefully in the dark when it comes to the dealings of large institutions, such as Citadel. The power institutions like this have to manipulate the market and evade even the simplest rules of the "free and fair" market has proven astronomical. Retail investors need more transparent access to short positions that these large institutions
Very simply put, our founding fathers had a knowing. A conviction that there is but one truth. We must not deviate from the path set upon in regards to perpetuating our conviction of the self evident truth that "all men are created equal ".
Equality in creation that dictates fair access and complete freedom to invest in any public stock .
Far be it just that a man be
