Futures Trading Act · 1996 Revised Edition · Part V · Conduct of Futures Business
37A. Front-running
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No futures broker shall knowingly buy any futures contract for its own account, an account belonging to a connected person or for an account in which it has an interest (including any account over which it has discretion) when that futures broker has received any order to buy any futures contract of the same type for any other person at the prevailing market price or at the same price and has not executed that order, except in accordance with the business rules and practices of a Futures Exchange or a futures market.
futures broker
“futures broker” means any person, whether as principal or agent, who —(a)carries on the business of soliciting or accepting orders, for the purchase or sale of any commodity under a futures contract on any Futures Exchange or futures market whether or not that person accepts any money, securities or property (or extends credit in lieu thereof) to margin, guarantee or secure any contract or transaction that may result therefrom; or(b)carries on the business of leveraged foreign exchange trading,whether the business is part of, or is carried on in conjunction with, any other business;
No futures broker shall knowingly sell any futures contract for its own account, an account belonging to a connected person or for an account in which it has an interest (including any account over which it has discretion) when that futures broker has received any order to sell any futures contract of the same type for any other person at the prevailing market price or at the same price and has not executed that order, except in accordance with the business rules and practices of a Futures Exchange or a futures market.
futures contract
“futures contract” means a contract the effect of which is that —(a)one party agrees to deliver a specified commodity, or a specified quantity of a specified commodity, to another party at a specified future time and at a specified price payable at that time pursuant to terms and conditions set forth in the business rules or practices of a Futures Exchange or a futures market; or(b)the parties will discharge their obligations under the contract by settling the difference between the value of a specified quantity of a specified commodity at the time of the making of the contract and at a specified future time, such difference being determined in accordance with the business rules or practices of the Exchange or futures market at which the contract is made,and includes a futures option transaction;