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Series 11 – Assistant Representative – Order Processing; Series 15 – Foreign Currency Options Exam; Series 17 – United Kingdom Securities Representative Exam; Series 22 – Direct Participation (Limited partnerships) Exam; Series 30 – NFA Branch Manager Exam; Series 31 – Futures – Managed Funds Exam* Series 32 – Limited Futures ...
The National Futures Association (NFA) is the self-regulatory organization (SRO) for the U.S. derivatives industry, including on-exchange traded futures, retail off-exchange foreign currency and OTC derivatives . NFA is headquartered in Chicago and maintains an office in New York City.
Its clearing members serve both professional traders and public customers and are approximately 115 of the largest U.S. broker-dealers, futures commission merchants and non-U.S. securities firms. OCC also serves other markets, including those of trading commodity futures, commodity options, and security futures.
Futures exchanges provide access to clearing houses that stand in the middle of every trade. Suppose trader A purchases US$145,000 of gold futures contracts from trader B. Trader A really bought a futures contract to buy US$145,000 of gold from the clearing house at a future time, and trader B really has a contract to sell US$145,000 to the clearing house at that same time.
To establish a futures contract, traders must put up a portion of its total value called margin, often 3 to 12 percent. The clearinghouse holds this capital as security for the contract.
A commodity trading advisor (CTA) is US financial regulatory term for an individual or organization who is retained by a fund or individual client to provide advice and services related to trading in futures contracts, commodity options and/or swaps. [1] [2] They are responsible for the trading within managed futures accounts.
Futures Commission Merchant (FCM): a firm or individual that solicits or accepts orders for commodity contracts traded on an exchange and holds client funds to margin, similar to a securities broker-dealer. Most individual traders do not work directly with a FCM, but rather through an IB or CTA.
Futures contracts for agricultural commodities have been traded in the U.S. for more than 150 years and have been under federal regulation since the 1920s. [7] The Grain Futures Act of 1922 set the basic authority and was changed by the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.).