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Comment for Proposed Rule 75 FR 3281

  • From: Jeffery Richard
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    Comment No: 6284
    Date: 3/5/2010

    Comment Text:

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    COMMENT
    CL-06284
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    Jeffrey Richard
    Friday, March 5, 2010 5:02 PM
    secretary < secreta ry@ C FTC. g ov >
    Regulation of Retail Forex
    Re: RIN 3038-AC61
    TO: David Stawick, Secretary
    Commodity Futures Trading Commission
    1155 21st Street, N.W.,
    Washington, DC 20581
    Dear Mr. Stawick,
    I would to state that I am strongly against the proposed rules that would subject leverage in retail forex customer accounts to a
    10-to-1 limitation.
    This rule would eliminate the forex trading opportunity for many individual traders that have a limited capital base, and
    therefore favor only high net wealth traders or institutional traders.
    If the concern here is to protect novice individual retail traders, I would suggest a better course of action would be having
    Forex brokers offer "mini lots" ($10,000 lots using 100:1 leverage) as their default for new customers, and recommend they
    not move to full $100,000 lots until after trading experience has been gained.
    Thank you for your consideration of this matter.
    Sincerely,
    Jeffrey Richard
    Grand Rapids, MI
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