Commodity Exchange Act (ch. 545, , enacted June 15, 1936) is a federal act enacted in 1936 by the U.S. Government, with some of its provisions amending the Grain Futures Act of 1922. The Act provides federal regulation of all commodities and futures trading activities and requires all futures and commodity options to be traded on organized exchanges. In 1974, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) was created as a result of the Commodity Exchange Act, and in 1982 the National Futures Association (NFA) was created by CFTC. See also Grain Futures Act National Futures Association Commodity Futures Trading Commission Futures exchange Futures contract Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 External links 7 U.S. Code Chapter 1—Commodity Exchanges Public Law 74-675, 74th Congress, H. R. 6772: Commodity Exchange Act Commodity markets in the United States United States federal commodity and futures legislation 1936 in American law