This book analyzes the impact of regulation on today's commodity futures trading market by examining the development and growth of both. It addresses the development of regulatory efforts and examines the regulated futures exchange, discusses the creation and development of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and focuses on the types of commodity interests that are traded and their regulation. Commodity interests include leverage contracts, commodity futures contracts and options, and foreign contracts. Including an examination of the problems faced by the government in its regulatory efforts, this important new work is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone involved in the commodity futures market, including banks, businesses, speculators, and regulators.

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

This treatise provides examination of the scope and intended application of the fraud, manipulation and trading practice prohibitions of the Commodity Exchange Act. It offers practitioners comprehensive treatment of specific types of fraud, prohibited trade practices, general standards, such as secondary liability and scienter, and many other topics.

This year's edition of the Commodity Exchange Act: Regulations & Formscontains the full text of the Commodity Exchange Act and allamendments as of April, 2010. This book also reproduces the rules, regulationsand forms of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The source material iscompiled from the CCH Commodity Futures Law Reporter .The 2010 Edition includes:provisions relating to "significant price discovery" contracts traded onexempt commercial markets;procedures under which designated contract markets, derivatives clearingorganizations and derivatives transaction execution facilities may requestconfidential treatment for products and rules submitted for Commission reviewand approval;conflict-of-interest provisions relating to designated contract markets;revisions to adjusted net capital requirements for Futures CommissionMerchants and Introducing Brokers;revisions to requirements for periodic account statements and annual reportsby Commodity Pool Operators.