Regulation in Energy Futures Markets: Case of Price Manipulation

Derivatives markets are highly regulated. In many developed exchange markets، dedicated regulatory agencies have been stablished to regulate these markets and partiqularly prevent price manipulations. Manipulation means creating an artificial price through forces other than legitimate supply and demand forces. While price manipulation occur in all commodity markets، but it has very significant effect on energy market. Judiciary cases in futures markets show that price manipulation generally takes place in three forms: market corner، market squeeze and determination of settlement price.