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CTA and CPO Registration and Compliance Guide

October 15, 2009

Practical guidance for CTA and CPO firms
Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) and Commodity Pool Operators (CPOs) have been contacting me with greater regularity and we have decided to provide those firms with more detailed information on their registration and compliance requirements. Over the course of the next few weeks we will be continually updating [...]

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Forex Trading Software | Meta Trader 4

June 26, 2009

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Meta Trader 4 - Online Forex Trading Platform

Meta Trader 4 is an online trading complex designed to provide broker services to customers at forex, futures and CFD markets.  This is a whole-cycle complex, which means that the trader will not need any other software to organize his/her broker services when using Meta Trader 4. The [...]

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NFA Discusses Recent Forex Regulations

June 16, 2009

Answers Regarding Prohibition of Hedging Spot Forex Transactions
(www.hedgefundlawblog.com)  The NFA has certainly taken a lot of heat over its controversial rule to ban the practice of “hedging” in a single spot forex account.  Many retail investors have already begun establishing brokerage accounts offshore in order to utilize this trading strategy.  I recently talked with a [...]

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Offshore Forex Brokers Race To Fill “Hedging” Gap

May 15, 2009

NFA Compliance Rule 2-43 Outlaws Forex “Hedging” For NFA Registered Forex Dealers
(www.hedgefundlawblog.com) The new forex regulations have affected the industry in a number of ways.  Rule 2-43 especially has been a source of ire for some forex managers who have utilized a “hedging strategy” as part of their investment program.  In the forex hedging strategy [...]

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Series 30 Exam Information

April 24, 2009

Overview of Series 30 Exam
The Series 30 exam is a National Futures Association sponsored exam which is required for those persons who are branch office managers of a NFA member firm (see our post on CPO and CTA Branch Office Information).  Generally if a NFA Member firm (such as a CPO or CTA) has a [...]

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Discussion with CFTC Regarding Forex Registration

April 10, 2009

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No New Information on Forex Regulations
I have been getting more and more questions regarding forex registration and unfortunately I have not had much to say because there has been little information coming from the CFTC.  The NFA has done a good job of anticipating what those rules will generally look like, but the NFA (like [...]

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Forex Hedge Fund Articles

April 7, 2009

Below are a list of the articles which are devoted to forex hedge funds and the regulations involved in the off-exchange foreign currency markets.  Please contact us if you would like to start a forex hedge fund or if you would like information related to the forex registration requirements.
Forex Overview

What is Forex?  Forex Overview
Forex E-Micro

Forex [...]

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Discussion about Forex Registration and the Series 34 Exam

March 16, 2009

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Creating Series 34 Exam Prep Materials
One central issue in the investment management industry is increases in regulation of previously unregulated or lightly regulated activities.  The major area which will see direct regulation within the next 12 months is the retail off-exchange foreign currency industry.  As we have discussed, forex managers and those parties which solicit [...]

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CFTC Uses New Enforcement Authority to Police Forex

January 15, 2009

Forex Firm Caught Operating a Ponzi Scheme
The CFTC just announced that it charged a group out of Atlanta with operating a Ponzi scheme.  This is the first action the CFTC has brought against a forex firm for fraud.  At the beginning of last year Congress passed the Farm Bill which provided the CFTC with more [...]

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