---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 C.F.R. § 38.651"
title: "17"
number: "38.651"
heading: "Protection of markets and market participants."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/17/38.651"
---

# §38.651. Protection of markets and market participants.


A designated contract market must have and enforce rules that are designed to promote fair and equitable trading and to protect the market and market participants from abusive practices including fraudulent, noncompetitive or unfair actions, committed by any party. The designated contract market must have methods and resources appropriate to the nature of the trading system and the structure of the market to detect trade practice and market abuses and to discipline such behavior, in accordance with Core Principles 2 and 4, and the associated regulations in subparts [C](/cfr/17/subpartC.md) and [E](/cfr/17/subpartE.md) of this part, respectively. The designated contract market also must provide a competitive, open and efficient market and mechanism for executing transactions in accordance with Core Principle 9 and the associated regulations under [subpart J](/cfr/17/subpartJ.md) of this part.


## Notes

### Source

Source: 77 FR 36700, June 19, 2012, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1a, 2, 6, 6a, 6c, 6d, 6e, 6f, 6g, 6i, 6j, 6k, 6l, 6m, 6n, 7, 7a-2, 7b, 7b-1, 7b-3, 8, 9, 15, and 21, as amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Pub. L. 111-203, 124 Stat. 1376.

### Source

Source: 66 FR 42277, Aug. 10, 2001, unless otherwise noted.