The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has brought fraud charges against self-proclaimed FX “master trader” James Frederick Walsh. The CFTC complaint against Walsh was filed on July 7, 2020, at the Texas Western District Court. The complaint, seen by FinanceFeeds, alleges that from at least September 2019 to the present, Walsh fraudulently solicited members of the public for the purported purpose of trading off-exchange leveraged or margined retail FX on their behalves. Primarily using social-media platforms YouTube and Craigslist, and email, Walsh fraudulently marketed himself as a highly ... (full story)