U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an order filing and settling charges against Tower Research Capital LLC, a proprietary trading firm, arising from a manipulative and deceptive scheme, spanning nearly two years and involving thousands of occasions of spoofing in equity index futures.

European Parliament lawmakers and national officials failed to clinch a year-end deal to overhaul the bloc’s financial market rulebook.

The brutal honest truth is a tough pill to swallow. The fact that most of the time it’s not the strategy that has failed; it’s you (the trader), which is why you need a simple trading strategy drawn out on paper with detailed rules for you to follow.

There are many ways to trade. Regardless of your approach, following these guidelines will put you ahead of the game.

There are many ways to trade. Regardless of your approach, following these guidelines will put you ahead of the game.

Today the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved two Position Limits Proposals.

It hardly makes sense for the CFTC to pursue an appeal from a federal district court decision invalidating an earlier rule on speculative position limits when it is on the cusp of enacting new rules on the subject that (hopefully) will pass muster in the courts.

Two Federal Reserve staff members failed to follow the central bank’s rules that dictated how to handle the minutes of policy meetings

U.S. and European financial regulators reportedly will announce an agreement on jointly overseeing the $633 trillion global swaps market.