CFTC Fines Firm and Traders $745,000 for Commodity Spoofing

Sept. 30, 2020, 5:06 PM UTC

A Chicago-based proprietary trading firm and three traders will pay a total of $745,000 for market manipulation in agriculture and metals contracts, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in a statement Wednesday.

The CFTC said ARB Trading Group LP, along with two traders from Canada and one from India, bid on or offered raw-materials contracts with the intent to cancel before execution. The so-called spoofing was in commodities traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Comex, the Chicago Board of Trade and ICE Futures on raw materials including hogs, cattle, silver and copper.

The announcement comes on the heels of ...

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