The CFTC found that Cunningham Commodities’ did not supervise the GIB accounts over a sixteen-month period diligently. Moreover, the company entered into the guarantee with the GIB despite knowing that the GIB offered a “trading program” to customers when it was not registered as a commodity trading advisor and that the majority of customers lost money under the GIB’s trading program. Many of those customers were senior citizens and any of the traded accounts were retirement accounts.

The National Futures Association said:

[GIB] used misleading and deceptive solicitations and communications to entice investment in a program that the firm know[s] has consistently lost money for substantially all customers.

However, Cunningham Commodities had not made adequate response to this statement. The company required the GIB to record its solicitation calls, but never listened to them, even as customer accounts continued to fall in value.

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