CPOs

A letter from NFA's CEO and Chairman

Daniel J. Roth & Christopher K. Hehmeyer
January 24, 2014
As we are all well aware, the last two years have been the most challenging for the futures industry in the almost 80 years the two of us, collectively, have been in the business. The collapse of MF Global and the uncovering of the Peregrine Financial Group (PFG) fraud brought about the questioning of systems and procedures believed to be safe

AlphaMetrix shutters trading operations

Futures Staff
October 30, 2013
According to a statement received, AlphaMetrix will cease trading operations as of Oct. 31 and enter that portion of its business into an orderly liquidation.

CTAs speak out: “We’ve been wronged!”

Ginger Szala
April 23, 2013
A year after the MF Global bankruptcy one cash management firm decided to ask CTAs and CPOs how they were impacted by these bankruptcies.

Forex managers come into the fold

Daniel P. Collins
September 30, 2010
The final rules recently announced by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regarding retail forex trading will require more trading programs to register as commodity trading advisors (CTAs) and commodity pool operators (CPOs)