CFTC - Stop Leverage Change

"We want 100:1 leaverage."

"Spend your time and efforts on crooked institutions/brokers, not speculative traders. Regulating wrong end of chain...I understand the risk of trading, its the risk of thieves I do not!"

"Lowering leverage will only force traders to move to overseas brokers. Which will hurt the U.S. economy."

"After losing all during this chaos a lot of us need to be able to supplement our measly retirements and depend on forex trading to make a living. Jobs are not abundant specially for people my age. 10:1 will just force me and others to transfer our account"

"Keep in mind, currencies move about a penny per day. 100:1 leverage is essential for most traders in this market. Regulation is fine but the proposed will completely ruin the entire FX retail market along with most of the jobs."

"Too many restrictions is killing an industry"

"let the leverage be optional as the client desire on the same platform there is variable options of leverage as the trader want and it will vary between 1/10 to 1/200"

"I strongly support this pettition on behalf of thousands of people who are living off of this business. Is it better to let people continue make money on Forex or see them in unemployment lines or rioting on the streets?"

"CFTC has no legal jurisdiction in spot forex only forex futures at the CME. Read the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. What F'n joke. The CFTC trying to control a market it has no control over. Traders will just go outside the US."

"I'm afraid that I'm already looking for another broker outside the U.S. that doesn't offer such PUNITIVE leverage restrictions as 10:1. I knew the risks I was taking when I got into forex trading; I've heard all the discouraging statistics. I don't plan o"

"Dodd-Obama suck"