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Open Categories Menu Story of the CME & CBOT Merger Just a quick note to say I recently picked up the book Zero-Sum Game by Erika S. Olson. Olson is, at the time the story begins, a newly hired managing director of marketing for the Chicago Board of Trade and she chronicled her [...]
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15 October
CTA and CPO Registration and Compliance Guide
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 [...]
14 August
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Forex, Legal Resources
How to register as a CPO or a CTA
Many hedge fund managers choose to utilize futures and/or commodities in their trading purposes. Generally such managers will need to register as commodity pool operators (“CPO”) and as commodity trading advisors (“CTA”). The hedge fund itself will be deemed to be a commodity pool. For purposes of the Commodities Exchange [...]
