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Comment for Proposed Rule 75 FR 3281

  • From: David Stawick
    Organization(s):

    Comment No: 3632
    Date: 1/24/2010

    Comment Text:

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    From:
    Sent:
    To:
    Subject:
    Stawick, David
    Sunday, January 24, 2010 9:40 PM
    secretary
    Fw:
    RIN 3038-AC61
    ..... Original Message .....
    From: Bill House
    To: secretary
    Cc: Stawick, David; Smith, Thomas J.; Bauer, Jennifer; Penner, William; Cummings, Christopher W.; Sanchez, Peter
    Sent: Sun Jan 24 21:08:39 2010
    Subject: RIN 3038-AC61
    ATTN:
    Mr. David Stawick,
    Secretary
    Commodity Futures Trading Commision
    1155 21st Street, N.W.,
    Washington, DC 20581
    FROM:
    William J. House, III
    Mr. Secretary,
    It has come to my attention that a proposal being put forward by your
    regulatory organization: RIN 3038-AC61 will have a great and, most
    possibly detrimental, impact on the foreign currency market in the
    United States and I was compelled to put my views and perspective on
    said proposal and is most likely effects into words.
    The proposal to change the minimum capital leverage of 10:1 will
    severely cripple if not destroy the average retail forex trader's
    ability to fund or operate an account due to the need to already have
    or somehow appropriate 10 times the current amount of capital to
    maintain the same trading volume. If such a proposal is enacted
    average forex traders will have no choice but to move their funds to
    non-US accounts of foreign brokers to continue trading at the current
    market parameters. This will facilitate if not accelerate the amount
    of liquid funds already hemorrhaging from the US financial system from
    foreign and domestic investors alike leaving the US markets in the
    wake of the recent financial crisis. The proposed changes will only
    add to the exodus of wealth and prosperity leaving our shores.
    If this happens not only will you be driving out the heart of a viable
    market that works and has worked for the American people and the world
    as an alternate source of revenue and financial stability, but youi0-001
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    will also be driving good and honest traders into the arms of some
    totally unregulated and questionable offshore forex brokers who will
    mostly likely, with a 'captive audience' so-to-speak, be unscrupulous
    in their dealings with American investors and take them for every
    dollar they have. That is money that could have stayed in the US
    market if only poorly constructed regulation had not driven them out
    and put all but the biggest and most-capitalized brokers out of
    business.
    Regulation that strangles growth and stifles competition is not the
    answer to the financial woes of our great country. The true answer is
    judicious and carefully considered moderate regulation based on sound
    market principles that allow the risk necessary for growth while
    checking the fraudulent actions of dishonest players in the market,
    such as some brokers with predatory market tactics used to increase
    profits and scammers creating phony forex products and schemes. The
    number one component of any successful and fair regulation is
    EDUCATION. Educate the people on not just the rules and by -laws, but
    also on sleazy tactics that might be used against them.
    You can't complain that people crash too much in traffic and then
    lower the speed limit to half of what it was in an attempt to prevent
    accidents if you never taught them to drive in the first place. In
    short: The proposed new rule of leverage limitations does not protect
    investors or traders. It will marginalize average retail traders into
    nothing. It will do exactly the opposite of protect them. It will
    drive force them into harm's way because an investor will now have to
    risk 10 times the amount as before to place the same trade or go into
    even riskier territory to make the same trade elsewhere. Please think
    about this before attempting to make this proposal law. In forbearance
    there is wisdom.
    Sincerely,
    William J. House. III