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Order-Book Spoofing: What It Looks Like in Live Data
$920.2MLargest spoofing penalty
CFTC order against JPMorgan Chase covering spoofing and manipulation in precious metals and Treasury futures
Spoofing is defined by intent, which no market-data feed can observe. Here are the order-book patterns that stand in for it, and where they fail. Spoofing, as regulators define it, is bidding or offering with the intent to cancel the order before execution. The offence lives in the trader's intent. That is a critical point for anyone building or buying a detection tool, because intent is precisely the thing that market data cannot contain. Enforcement history makes the standard concrete. The CFTC's order against JPMorgan Chase covered conduct spanning at least eight years and hundreds of thousands of orders, and carried $920.2 million in monetary relief — the largest the agency has imposed. Its order against Tower Research Capital found orders placed with intent to cancel before execution and required $67.4 million in restitution, disgorgement and penalties.
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Supporting figures
- $67.4M — Largest single-firm spoofing reliefCFTC order against Tower Research Capital for orders placed with intent to cancel before execution
- Intent — Defining elementUnder U.S. law the offence is bidding or offering with intent to cancel before execution — a state of mind, not a pattern
- Behaviour only — What a feed can observePlacement, size, distance from touch, cancellation timing, and price reaction
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Vultax Research, Order-Book Spoofing: What It Looks Like in Live Data, 2026-09-07, https://vultax.com/research/order-book-spoofing-what-it-looks-like
Published 2026-09-02, last revised 2026-09-07. Figures are the published study; live screens move. Plain-text version · Use our data