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The National Futures Association (NFA)


In essence, the National Futures Association, or the 'NFA', offers a Background Affiliation Status Information Center (BASIC), where investors can check on a firms registration status and actions taken.

They are a self-regulatory organization of the United States futures industry created in 1982.

NFA houses a learning center for trading information, dispute resolutions and a place to file complaints. Found at nfa.futures.org


Concerned too with regulation is: the Commodity Futures Trading Commission


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Futures Contracts explains the basic process of futures trading, the main types of traders and on settlement.