Source: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/cftc

# CFTC
URL: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/cftc
Last modified: 2026-10-17

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](https://mochatrade.com/blog/mocha-markets-weekly-dec), it is [writing rules for perpetual futures in public](https://mochatrade.com/blog/mocha-markets-weekly-12-oct), and the instrument this course ends on [sits right on the line between the CFTC and the SEC](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/us-stock-market-explained).

## Related terms

- SEC: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/sec
- Perpetual futures: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/perpetual-futures
- FINRA: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/finra
- CME Group: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/cme-group
- Dark pool: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/dark-pool
- Index futures (E-mini S&P 500): https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/index-futures