What regulations/limitations are there in promoting your CTA business online and offline? Assuming you have your own CTA managed futures accounts businesses and the CTA (registered with NFA/CFTC) is an LLC which is registered with State A: 1. You have a website to promote yourself, what are the dos and don'ts regarding the information you can place on your website. 2. How about adversity on news paper? --- CTA is a LLC which is created under State A. My understanding is that CTA can take any clients from any States, but can a CTA advertise in other States? 3. State local news paper --- Can a CTA/LLC registered in State A directly put ad on State Bâs local news paper? 4. National news paper --- Can a CTA/LLC registered in State A directly put ad on a national news paper which may be viewed by many people in many other States? 5. International news paper --- Can a CTA/LLC registered in State A directly put ad on an y international news paper? 6. Google advertise --- If a CTA can not advertise in another States, how can a CTA put ad on Google? Since the viewers may come from any States.
There are several CTAs that have bought up google adwords for certain words like "trendfollowing" Watch this: type in turtle trader in google - the adword on the right is for EMC Capital Management - a trend following managed futures fund.
There are several CTAs that have bought up google adwords for certain words like "trendfollowing" Watch this: type in turtle trader in google - the adword on the right is for EMC Capital Management - a trend following managed futures fund. It looks like CTA can put ad on Google. How about national wide (inter-state) newspaper?
The OP should spend the $300 or so to talk to a lawyer well versed in these matters for the one hour it takes to get these questions answered. This is not the kind of thing to try to save money on by querying an internet bulletin board for basic knowledge on the law. Ordinarily I would not bother to set the OP right - the OP's decision to mess around with a regulator in an ill informed manner would result in the OP bearing the consequences. However should the OP embark on posting sensational CTA advertisements in newspapers, regulator attention will certainly be stoked, creating a situation that could potentially greatly inconvenience the larger community of CTAs. So please spend the $300 or $600 if it takes you two hours.