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Comment for Proposed Rule 75 FR 3281

  • From: J Bailey
    Organization(s):

    Comment No: 1867
    Date: 1/21/2010

    Comment Text:

    i0-001
    COMMENT
    CL-01867
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    [email protected]
    Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:56 PM
    secretary
    Fwd: Regulation of Retail Forex
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    From: bailey900@comcast, net
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    [email protected]
    Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:54:40 PM GMT-05:00 US/Canada Eastern
    Subject: Regulation of Retail Forex
    Dear Secretary :
    I don't agree with the proposed policy to radically lower Forex leverage from 100:1 to 10:1 for all NFA and CFTC
    regulated Forex firms.
    This puts US investors and brokers at a clear disadvantage since foreign companies and investors outside the US
    will continue to have the leverage that you propose to deny US investors. The difference between a 100:1 margin
    and a 10:1 margin is highly significant and will reduce the number of investors looking towards forex trading as a
    parttime interest and as a source of income.
    Whoever came up with this idea has never traded in the forex market and does not understand the benefits of
    leverage to the ordinary trading investor.
    I commend effort to provide increased consumer protection - however changing leverage is not something I can
    support given the huge disadvantage it would provide to reduce returns and make US investors uncompetitive on
    a global scale.
    J. Bailey