August 27, 2021
1. Do you have one or more online trading or investment accounts?
Yes, I have one or more accounts that I access both online using a computer and using a mobile app.
2. If your response to Question 1 is Yes, do you think you would trade or invest if you could not do so online using a computer or using a mobile app?
No
3. On average, how often do you access your online account?
Daily/more than once a day
4. On average, how often are trades made in your online account, whether by you or someone else?
Once to a few times a week.
5. If you access your account online, did you have the account first, and only began to access it electronically later? Or did you open the account with the idea that you would access it electronically immediately?
I had a pre-existing account and downloaded an app or visited a website to access my account
6. My goals for trading or investing in my online account are (check all that apply):
Keep the amount of money I have, while keeping up with inflation
Save and grow my money for short-term goals (in the next year or two)
Save and grow my money for medium- to long-term goals
Have fun
Other
If Other, Explain:
I expect to spend my money as I see fit. My goals are to not be [REDACTED] by this system your department has failed to supervise. You should be [REDACTED] embarrassed. Sorry for the language but we didn't get to where we are without your failing so I'm going to try anything to get you to wake the [REDACTED] up and do what I'm happy to pay you to do.
7. What would you like us to know about your experience with the features of your online trading or investment platform? (Examples of features are: social networking tools games, streaks, or contests with prizes points, badges, and leaderboards notifications celebrations for trading visual cues, like changing colors ideas presented at order placement or other curated lists or features subscription and membership tiers or chatbots.)
Stop conflating retail investors with the rampant bots (fake) online profiles and paid \"influencers.\"
Stop calling technology improvements \"gamification.\" I want to log in securely which an app does via biometrics. I want clear visual of my investments, I want quick, trades without nonsense. The SEC and Congress are OLD. You people are physically too old to make decisions in a world that's eager for you to become the dust you are.
Protect Retail by going after big money cheating and manipulating the market.
Where is the survey for how I feel about crime? After the events and crime against retail in 2020 you want to know if I like flashing lights on an app? Your department is Pathetic. Pathetic.
8. If you were trading or investing prior to using an online account, how have your investing and trading behaviors changed since you started using your online account? (For example, the amount of money you have invested, your interest in learning about investing and saving for retirement, the amount of time you have spent trading, your knowledge of financial products, the number of trades you have made, the amount of money you have made in trading, your knowledge of the markets, the number of different types of financial products you have traded, or your use of margin.)
I feel like I'm being robbed and the police are helping the criminals.
I'm a grown [REDACTED] adult and I'm very aware of what's happening in front of my eyes.
My online account has made it easy for me to check my portfolio while also researching about how you should be doing your job. I've been able to keep documented record of the SECs failings to stop, or restrict crime and fraud.
9. How much experience do you have trading or investing in the following products (None, 12 months, 1-2 years, 2-5 years, 5+ years):
Stocks : 5+ Years
Bonds : 5+ Years
Options : 5+ Years
Mutual Funds : 5+ Years
ETFs : 2-5 Years
Futures : 2-5 Years
Cryptocurrencies : 5+ Years
Commodities : 5+ Years
ClosedEnd Funds : 5+ Years
Money Market Funds : 5+ Years
Variable Insurance Products : 5+ Years
Business Development Companies : 5+ Years
Unit Investment Trusts : None
10. What is your understanding, if any, of the circumstances under which trading or investing in your account can be suspended or restricted?
You can't restrict my trading unless I do something criminal or the stock I'm buying is somehow RESPONSIBLE for a problem that I need to be protected from. No one, no one, not one fucker may tell me what I can and cannot buy just because I or someone else may lose or make money.
Do not come into my house and tell me how I can spend or waste my money that I worked for. That I missed my family to earn. That I went to war for this country to earn. That money, my investment is MINE. Anyone that takes action to stop me should expect the same recourse thet would receive in person.
11. What else would you like us to know positive or negative - about your experience with online trading and investing?
Retail knows. Retail knows you know. You will be responsible for everything that happens. Your children will have you to thank, you to blame or you to mourn.
We are at a turning point.