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Series 1 – Registered Representative Exam (Discontinued) Series 2 – Non-Member General Securities Exam (Discontinued) Series 3 – National Commodities Futures Exam* Series 5 – Interest Rate Options Exams; Series 6 – Investment Company and Variable Contracts Exam (Mutual Funds Broker/Variable Annuities)
The trading floor scene at the end of the movie was set at the previous trading floor of the New York Board of Trade at 4 World Trade Center. [9] The official address of the New York Board of Trade headquarters and trading facility, located in the New York Mercantile Exchange Building, is One North End Avenue, New York, NY 10282-1101.
Electronic ticker monitor display, showing the bid and offer status of securities. Securities market participants in the United States include corporations and governments issuing securities, persons and corporations buying and selling a security, the broker-dealers and exchanges which facilitate such trading, banks which safe keep assets, and regulators who monitor the markets' activities.
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.
The NASD was founded on September 3, 1936 as Investment Bankers Conference, Inc. [9] and, on August 7, 1939, was registered under the name National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. [10] as a national securities association with the SEC under authority granted by the 1938 Maloney Act amendments to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, [11] which allowed it to supervise the conduct of its ...
Historically, commodity brokers traded grain and livestock futures contracts. Today, commodity brokers trade a wide variety of financial derivatives based on not only grain and livestock, but also derivatives based on foods/softs, metals, energy, stock indexes, equities, bonds, currencies, and an ever growing list of other underlying assets.
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.).
For example, in gold futures trading, the margin varies between 2% and 20% depending on the volatility of the spot market. [2] A stock future is a cash-settled futures contract on the value of a particular stock market index. Stock futures are one of the high risk trading instruments in the market.