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Position Limits Bona Fide Hedging Swaps

A Position Limit is a limitation on the number of options or futures contracts an investor is allowed to hold. Position Limits are meant to prevent manipulation and excessive speculation in the market. 
Morgan Lewis

Latest CFTC Position Limits Proposal: If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again

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After a decade of rulemaking efforts, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is proposing revisions to its regulations concerning federal speculative position limits to conform to the Wall Street Transparency and...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging The Week - January 2020 #3

Will the fourth time be the charm? This week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will try for the fourth time since 2011 to revise its speculative position limits rules. Details have not been made public, but Heath...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

CFTC Unanimously Approves Supplemental Proposal on Position Limits

On May 26, 2016, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) unanimously approved a proposed supplement (“Supplemental Proposal”) to its December 2013 proposal to establish position limits on futures and economically...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Court Vacates CFTC Position Limit Rules"

On September 28, 2012, Judge Robert Wilkins of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the summary judgment motion of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and Securities Industry and...more

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