America was founded on the idea of personal freedom and choice. Clichéd, yes, but I think true nonetheless. As long as a choice does not negatively affect anyone else, I feel it should be allowed. We're all adults here and can figure out what to do or not do all on our own.

I would prefer to choose myself the public investments that are right for me.
Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged.

The regulation, in my opinion, should be aimed at preventing abuse of other investors, and not at "prohibition for the good" because we all know what the road to hell is paved with.

With stocks and bonds going down and higher inflation there is no alternative but to buy some inverse etf, gold and having cash. I understand that one can loose a lot with leveraged funds but in order to recover the losses, one can recover back some with leveraged funds when the market will go up again. Please allow the people the freedom to invest the way they want.

I do not support any restrictions on the ability for all investors to access inverse, commodity and leveraged funds, or the funds and tools that are invested in by institutional investors.

I should be able to invest my money as I please, even if that means utilizing strategies that you do not otherwise approve of. That is the fundamental premise of a free market

I believe it would not be right to limit the use of inverse and leveraged funds only to specialized brokers or limit them to certain sectors. As a public investor I use leveraged and inverse funds on a daily basis as a way to seek enhanced returns. I am fully aware of the risk of these funds, going so far as to download 30+ years of historical market data and running my trading strategy against this to see how it would perform in up and down markets.

I've used leverage as part of a well-researched and highly-effective investment strategy for the past 14 years. This allows me to grow my investments - responsibly - much faster than would otherwise be possible without leverage. I should have the right to choose whatever investments make the most sense for me, and be expected to handle the consequences of any mistakes I make in their use. Investors already have to sign a separate agreement to trade leveraged funds that alerts them to the risk.

Leveraged funds are no more dangerous than individual stocks. All they do is make slow-moving indexes move more like stocks. Brokers currently have plenty of notices about how this works and investing at our own risk. No changes are needed.

Dear FINRA Regulator,

Let ME choose my investments!