---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 6l"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "6l"
heading: "Commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; Congressional finding"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/6l"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Commodity Exchanges"
---

# §6l. Commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; Congressional finding


It is hereby found that the activities of [commodity trading advisors](/usc/7/1a.md?p=12-A) and [commodity pool operators](/usc/7/1a.md?p=11-A) are affected with a national public interest in that, among other things—

- (1) their advice, counsel, publications, writings, analyses, and reports are furnished and distributed, and their contracts, solicitations, subscriptions, agreements, and other arrangements with clients take place and are negotiated and performed by the use of the mails and other means and instrumentalities of [interstate commerce](/usc/7/1a.md?p=30);
- (2) their advice, counsel, publications, writings, analyses, and reports customarily relate to and their operations are directed toward and cause the purchase and sale of [commodities](/usc/7/1a.md?p=9) for [future delivery](/usc/7/1a.md?p=27) on or subject to the rules of contract [markets](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) or derivatives transaction execution facilities; and
- (3) the foregoing transactions occur in such volume as to affect substantially transactions on contract [markets](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) or derivatives transaction execution facilities.

## Source credit

(Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 4l, as added Pub. L. 93–463, title II, § 205(a), Oct. 23, 1974, 88 Stat. 1397; Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 123(a)(10)], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–408.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2000—Pars. (2), (3). Pub. L. 106–554 inserted “or derivatives transaction execution facilities” after “contract markets”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

For effective date of section, see section 418 of Pub. L. 93–463, set out as an Effective Date of 1974 Amendment note under section 2 of this title.