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Investors throughout the world use “hedging” activities to reduce risk in their investment portfolios. But can “open-market” hedging activity constitute market manipulation under the...
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a term describing the assortment of different financial applications enabled by blockchain technology and cryptocurrency with the aim to decentralize financial services that are currently intermediated by financial institutions.
Recent Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) enforcement actions rely on the anti-manipulation provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act...
Recent CFTC enforcement actions rely on anti-manipulation provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to punish misstatements made to futures exchanges and futures commission merchants that permit a trader to trade futures for his own benefit.
May 6, 2021 | The CFTC’s Response Ted Butler No one has followed the silver market trading mechanics for as long or as closely as Ted Butler. At just shy of the two-month mark, I received a response from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission yesterday to my letter of March 5. I had raised highly specific questions regarding the concentrated short position of the four largest traders in COMEX silver futures, both over the week ended Feb 2 in which these traders were the sole short sellers and on the broader basis of these traders holding the largest short position in any commodity in r...