CFTC

The CFTC is the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the US referee for futures, swaps and anything shaped like a contract on a price. It publishes the weekly file of what the biggest speculators hold, it is writing rules for perpetual futures in public, and the instrument this course ends on sits right on the line between the CFTC and the SEC.

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