With nearly a quadrillion in derivatives that could implode the world at stake, author Larry Doyle is enraged that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) doesn’t have the funds to properly operate. He says it is a national security issue. CFTC Commissioner O’Malia Says Agency Doesn’t Have Technology Doyle, author of In Bed With Wall Street, notes CFTC Commissioner Scott O’Malia’s recent speech at the Tabb Forum in Chicago. “I do not believe that the (Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s) systems are adequate to oversee today’s fast and complex derivatives markets,” Scott O’Malia said Tuesday. O’Malia said he tried asking for…
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Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.