No person may hold or control positions, separately or in combination, net long or net short, for the purchase or sale of a commodity for future delivery or, on a futures-equivalent basis, options thereon, in excess of the following:
Speculative Position Limits------------------------------------------------------------------------
Limits by number of contracts------------------------------------------------------------------------
Single
Contract Spot month month All months------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chicago Board of Trade------------------------------------------------------------------------Corn and Mini-Corn \1\........... 600 33,000 33,000Oats............................. 600 2,000 2,000Soybeans and Mini-Soybeans \1\... 600 15,000 15,000Wheat and Mini-Wheat \1\......... 600 12,000 12,000Soybean Oil...................... 540 8,000 8,000Soybean Meal..................... 720 6,500 6,500------------------------------------------------------------------------
Minneapolis Grain Exchange------------------------------------------------------------------------Hard Red Spring Wheat............ 600 12,000 12,000------------------------------------------------------------------------
ICE Futures U.S.------------------------------------------------------------------------Cotton No. 2..................... 300 5,000 5,000------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kansas City Board of Trade------------------------------------------------------------------------Hard Winter Wheat................ 600 12,000 12,000------------------------------------------------------------------------\1\ For purposes of compliance with these limits, positions in the
regular sized and mini-sized contracts shall be aggregated. [76 FR 71684, Nov. 18, 2011]