adm USFTC 6743t FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. VICTOR MURDOCK, Chairman. HUSTON THOMPSON. WILLIAM B. COLVER. NELSON B. GASKILL JOHN GARLAND POLLARD. J. P. YODER, Secretary. OCT 15 1937 I, M. d Acknowledgment- Sec. 1.-The nature and prerequisites of future trading- Prerequisites of future trading_ Commodities subject to future trading. 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_-_- |