The government should stay out of private financial decisions.

I should be able to choose the public investments that are right for you and your family. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged. I shouldn't have to go through any process like passing a test before investing in public securities like leveraged and inverse funds. I am capable of understanding leveraged and inverse funds and their risks. Leveraged and inverse funds are important to my investment strategy.

This well intended proposed regulation will force small investors into trading futures contracts in able to hedge or short the market, creating even more risk for the average investor.

Stop this silliness now. This proposed regulation does more harm than good.

Dear Sirs: I am providing the following information in response to the possibility that FINRA is apparently in the process of promulgating restrictions that may cause severe harm to my ability to take advantage of the current system that allows investment in public securities and ETFs. As such, my ability to provide financial support to myself, my wife, and my immediate family may be destroyed.

I'm a currency trader and the Dodd-Frank act already makes my life complicated by regulating what kind of trades I can and can't make, "for my benefit", as if I'm a child, forcing me to have to use a foreign broker. Now, they want to further regulate what I can buy "to protect me", again, as if I'm a child. You can't bubble wrap the world, and every new regulation makes everything more complicated, not less.

Generally, complex products as described in this notice should be available to individual investors ('retail') with some obligation on the brokerage to ensure the individual investor understands the structure and risks associated with the complex product. Some brokers do a very good job of this and others seem to just 'check the box'.

It is the best possible outcome for you to allow freedom in trading assets.

Stop taking away our freedoms, government should not have so much control in our personal lives.

I absolutely oppose any restrictions to my right to invest that I feel are right for me and my family. This decision should not be up to any Regulators that don't even know anything about
my situation. Leveraged and inverse Funds are important to my financial strategies.

Such a regulation would violate my rights as an investor.