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Comment for Proposed Rule 75 FR 3281

  • From: Stephen Rodgers
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    Comment No: 1277
    Date: 1/20/2010

    Comment Text:

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    COMMENT
    CL-01277
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    Stephen Rodgers
    Wednesday, January 20, 2010 10:12 PM
    secretary
    Regulation of Retail Forex
    This is in regards to RIN 3038-AC61; the regulation of retail FOREX, in particular the adjusting of the
    Leverage down from a 100:1 ratio to a 10:1 ratio. In doing so you would in effect remove FOREX
    trading as a viable option for many small time traders such as myself, who maintain trading
    accounts of less then 510,000.00. I have been trading FOREX for years now on an 100:1 leverage
    account and have not had any problems, so I'm curious as to why this change is being suggested?
    Its certainly NOT in the interest of investors or the brokers who offer FOREX in the US. All this will
    do is drive away customers like myself from US brokers to use foreign brokers who offer leverage up
    to 1000:1. Personally I don't want that, I like the fact that I can trust my US brokers and that they
    ARE regulated., however this change will make it impossible for me to continue trading using a US
    broker.
    I am against this change, and I think you will find the majority of FOREX investors will also be against
    this change!