Grain Futures Act of 1922 — A federal statute passed in 1922 by the U.S Government that established the restriction that all grain futures need to be traded on regulated futures exchanges. The act also required exchanges to make more information public and limit the amount… … Investment dictionary
Futures contract — Financial markets Public market Exchange Securities Bond market Fixed income Corporate bond Government bond Municipal bond … Wikipedia
Commodity Futures Trading Commission — U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Official seal Agency overview Formed April 15, 1975 Preceding agency Commodity Exchange Authority … Wikipedia
Commodity Exchange Act — (ch. 545, 49 Stat. 1491, enacted June 15, 1936) is a federal act passed in 1936 by the U.S. Government (replacing the Grain Futures Act of 1922). The Act provides federal regulation of all commodities and futures trading activities and… … Wikipedia
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974 — Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Act of 1974 (P.L. 93 463) created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to replace the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Exchange Authority, as the independent federal agency responsible… … Wikipedia
National Futures Association — The National Futures Association (NFA) is an independent self regulatory organization and watchdog of the commodities and futures industry in the United States. The NFA oversees and protects investors from fraudulent commodities and futures… … Wikipedia
Commodity Exchange Act - CEA — An act passed in 1936 by the U.S. Government that provides federal regulation of all futures trading activities. This act replaced the Grain Futures Act of 1922. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) was created as a result of the CEA… … Investment dictionary
Grain elevator — Saskatchewan Wheat Pool No. 7, Thunder Bay, Ontario. A grain elevator is a tower containing a bucket elevator, which scoops up, elevates, and then uses gravity to deposit grain in a silo or other storage facility. In most … Wikipedia
grain — Wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, flax, and sorghum. Trusler v Crooks, 269 US 475, 479, 70 L Ed 365, 366, 46 S Ct 165. (Federal Futures Trading Act.) More broadly, the seed of any cereal plant … Ballentine's law dictionary
Future Trading Act — The Future Trading Act of 1921 (ch. 86, USStat|42|187) was a United States Act of Congress intended to institute regulation of grain futures contracts and, particularly, the exchanges on which they were traded. It was the second federal statute… … Wikipedia
