Ziliak Law Associate Doug Cahanin, Founder of Derivatives Law Blog, wrote this blog on disruptive trading practices on October 21, 2014. It is excerpted below, the full article is available by clicking "read more."
Starting Point: The Commodity Exchange Act
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (“CME”) recently issued a new rule, CME Rule 575, and an accompanying Market Regulation Advisory Notice (“Advisory Notice”) that garnered the attention of a majority of market participants. The Rule and Advisory Notice outline disruptive trading practices that the CME finds to be abusive to the orderly conduct of trading or the fair execution of transactions. As an attorney, the Rule and Advisory Notice makes my life easier for two reasons: (1) it does not prohibit any activity that was not already prohibited by either the CEA (as amended by Dodd-Frank) or existing CME rules, and (2) it defines explicitly the activities prohibited under the current rules, giving examples, and defining ambiguous terms. [Read More...]