CFTC issues advisory regarding speculative position limits
On May 7, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Advisory to alert market participants regarding their "ongoing legal obligations to comply with speculative position limits." Specifically, the CFTC reaffirmed that such limits apply on an intraday as well as an end-of-day basis and that traders whose positions exceed the applicable speculative position limit "at any time during the day" (emphasis in text) are in violation of the pertinent regulations even if their positions are reduced below the limit by the end of the day.
