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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.
VICTOR MURDOCK, Chairman.
HUSTON THOMPSON.
WILLIAM B. COLVER.
NELSON B. GASKILL.
JOHN GARLAND POLLARD.
J. P. YODER, Secretary.
CHAPTER I.-NATURE AND EXTENT OF FUTURE TRADING IN THE UNITED
STATES.
Sec. 1.-The nature and prerequisites of future trading.
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The "future" described___.
The futures market___
Prerequisites of future trading-
Commodities subject to future trading-
Sec. 2.-Historical notes__.
Probable origin of the Chicago future contract_
Adoption of rules governing future trading in 1865.
Official quotations printed by the board__.
A clearing house established at Chicago in 1883
Future trading methods not yet perfected.
Other futures markets patterned after Chicago_
Sec. 3.-Grain futures markets of the United States__
Markets where grain futures are traded in.
Futures quoted at Chicago from 1877----
The continuous market and the call market.
Extent of business interest in futures on 15 grain exchanges_
Sec. 4.-Volume of future trading and the course of its development____
Tax data for the Chicago Board of Trade____
Items cleared at Chicago, 1910-1918.
Clearances at Chicago and indices of future trading, 1884-
1918
Future trading at Minneapolis, 1904–1918-
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Volume of futures at Duluth, Milwaukee, St. Louis, New
York, etc
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Volume on the Chicago Open Board of Trade_
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Volume of trading in grain futures in the United States as a