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Investors bullied out of leveraged ETFs at exactly the wrong time

Saturday’s Wall Street Journal has an article titled “Investors Pull $2.1 Billion out of Leveraged ETFs.” What’s going on?The article says assets in ETFs increased by $20.1 billion in August but declined in only two asset classes: leveraged and inverse…

Restricting access to leveraged ETFs, are brokerages outlawing products or strategies?

As more brokerages prevent their customers (read: individual investors) from trading leveraged ETFs, I am moved to question the motivation of these firms.Thus far, we have UBS, Edward Jones, LPL Financial and Ameriprise Financial all banning trading of…