September 29, 2015

The CFTC ordered Barbara Cohen of Tarpon Springs, Florida, to pay a $140,000 penalty on charges that she made false statements of material fact to CFTC staff and that the website of Cohen’s company, Pure Reason, LLC promoted Pure Reason’s trading software by demonstrating profitable trading results without disclosing that these results were based on hypothetical, and not actual, trades.  CFTC

Tagged in: Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets,