{"id":909,"date":"2012-11-26T19:26:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T03:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2023-02-12T10:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T18:08:05","slug":"cftc-sues-intrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/26\/cftc-sues-intrade\/","title":{"rendered":"CFTC Sues Intrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CFTC is suing Intrade for apparently allowing U.S. residents to trade contracts on gold, unemployment rates and a few others that it had agreed to prevent U.S. residents from trading. The CFTC is apparently not commenting on whether Intrade&#8217;s political contracts violate any laws.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. traders will need to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intrade.com\/news\/id\/782\">close our accounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The email I got says <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the near future we&#8217;ll announce plans for a new exchange model that will allow legal participation from all jurisdictions &#8211; including the US.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (no statement about whether it will involve real money, which suggests that it won&#8217;t).<\/p>\n<p>I had already been considering closing my account because of the hassle of figuring out my Intrade income for tax purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CFTC is suing Intrade for apparently allowing U.S. residents to trade contracts on gold, unemployment rates and a few others that it had agreed to prevent U.S. residents from trading. The CFTC is apparently not commenting on whether Intrade&#8217;s political contracts violate any laws. U.S. traders will need to close our accounts. The email [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17,18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-if","category-investing","category-us"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-eF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}