Foreign Exchange Trading

October 20, 2016SEC ADVISORYFOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADINGThe advisory is prompted by the complaints of retail investors who lost their moneys to forex trading. AIDSTEThe public is advised that TRADING OF COMMODITIES FUTURES CONTRACTS IN THE PHILIPPINES (including Foreign Exchange Trading as consistently held by the Commission) and the pertinent RULES ARE STILL SUSPENDED pursuant to Paragraph 4 of Rule II of the Amended Rules and Regulations implementing the Securities Regulation Code.Based on the reports, huge amount of money has been invested (usually in US dollars) in forex trading corporations where investors opened margin accounts to enable them to trade in foreign currency. The so-called "experts" of the forex trading corporations execute foreign trade positions in behalf of the investors on the representation that investors shall gain profit as in the stock market.It has to be reiterated that under Section 11 of the Securities Regulation Code "no person shall offer, sell or enter into commodity futures contract except in accordance with rules and regulations and orders of the Commission may prescribe in the public interest."The investors should...