Home / Cases / Spoofing Spoofing enforcement actions This library records 114 enforcement actions tagged spoofing. Spoofing is placing orders a trader intends to cancel before execution, to create a false impression of supply or demand and move the price toward a smaller genuine order on the other side.
Actions are listed newest first. Each row links to a case page carrying the regulator's own release and, where one was published, the complaint. For how this technique works and what statute it engages, read the spoofing technique page.
Actions 100
Total penalties $2bn
Median penalty $500k
Largest $1.7bn
Criminal parallel 28% Action Agency Filed Penalty Status SEC v. Frank M. Cerisano Jr. (spoofing, 2026) SEC 2026-08-10 — judgment SEC v. Mingran Wang (spoofing, 2026) SEC 2026-06-25 — settled CFTC v. New York Trader (spoofing, 2026) CFTC 2026-05-06 $200k judgment CFTC v. Gregg Smith (spoofing, 2026) CFTC 2026-01-16 $200k judgment SEC v. Artur Khachatryan (spoofing, 2025) SEC 2025-12-16 — judgment SEC v. M Holdings Securities, Inc. (spoofing, 2025) SEC 2025-11-25 — settled SEC v. Allen C. Giltman (spoofing, 2025) SEC 2025-09-12 — judgment CFTC v. Brett Falloon (spoofing, 2025) CFTC 2025-09-09 $200k judgment SEC v. Ryan N. Cole (spoofing, 2025) SEC 2025-08-11 — judgment SEC v. Robinhood Financial LLC and Robinhood Securities, LLC (naked short selling debate, 2025) SEC 2025-01-13 — settled SEC v. SpeedRoute LLC (layering, 2025) SEC 2025-01-10 — settled SEC v. Zachary Stevenson (spoofing, 2024) SEC 2024-12-13 $150k settled CFTC v. FTX (exchange wash trading, 2024) CFTC 2024-12-04 — judgment SEC v. TD Securities (USA) LLC (cash vs derivatives schemes, 2024) SEC 2024-09-30 — unknown SEC v. Joel David Castro Leon and Shmuel A. Sherr (spoofing, 2024) SEC 2024-09-17 $125k judgment SEC v. OTC Link LLC (layering, 2024) SEC 2024-08-12 — settled CFTC v. Shak (banging the close, 2024) CFTC 2024-04-11 $750k settled SEC v. Jason Nielsen (spoofing, 2024) SEC 2024-04-03 — judgment CFTC v. Australian Swap Dealer (spoofing, 2024) CFTC 2024-04-02 $500k judgment CFTC v. HSBC Bank USA (cash vs derivatives schemes, 2023) CFTC 2023-11-07 $1.7bn filed CFTC v. Texas Firm and Head Trader (spoofing, 2023) CFTC 2023-09-07 — filed SEC v. Archipelago Trading Services, Inc. (layering, 2023) SEC 2023-08-29 — settled CFTC v. UK Trader (spoofing, 2023) CFTC 2023-08-01 $150k judgment CFTC v. HSBC Bank USA (spoofing, 2023) CFTC 2023-05-12 $45m judgment SEC v. Olga Kuprina (insider trading, 2023) SEC 2023-02-08 — filed CFTC v. Minnesota Registrant (spoofing, 2022) CFTC 2022-12-12 $550k judgment CFTC v. unnamed respondents (cash vs derivatives schemes, 2022) CFTC 2022-10-20 $41m judgment CFTC v. California Trader and Prop Firm (spoofing, 2022) CFTC 2022-09-26 $150k judgment CFTC v. Chicago Trader (spoofing, 2022) CFTC 2022-08-24 $100k judgment CFTC v. Nevada Metals Trader (spoofing, 2022) CFTC 2022-08-05 — filed SEC v. Lek Securities Corporation, et. al. (layering, 2022) SEC 2022-06-17 — appealed CFTC v. Tennessee Trader and Two Entities (cash vs derivatives schemes, 2022) CFTC 2022-04-14 — unknown CFTC v. James Vorley (spoofing, 2022) CFTC 2022-04-07 $150k judgment SEC v. Francis Biller, et al. (pump and dump, 2022) SEC 2022-03-17 — unknown CFTC v. Banoczay Jr. (spoofing, 2021) CFTC 2021-12-08 $750k settled SEC v. Denis Georgiyevich Sotnikov, et al. (spoofing, 2021) SEC 2021-10-26 $2.5m judgment SEC v. Xuepeng Xie (layering, 2021) SEC 2021-09-27 $600k settled SEC v. Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. and Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc. (spoofing, 2021) SEC 2021-08-30 — settled SEC v. Cetera Advisor Networks LLC (spoofing, 2021) SEC 2021-08-30 — settled SEC v. KMS Financial Services, Inc. (spoofing, 2021) SEC 2021-08-30 — settled CFTC v. Zhao (spoofing, 2021) CFTC 2021-06-11 — settled CFTC v. unnamed respondents (spoofing, 2020) CFTC 2020-12-01 — unknown CFTC v. unnamed respondents (spoofing, 2020) CFTC 2020-10-06 — unknown CFTC v. Chicago Prop Firm and 3 Traders (spoofing, 2020) CFTC 2020-09-30 $100k judgment CFTC v. Sunoco (spoofing, 2020) CFTC 2020-09-30 $450k judgment CFTC v. JPMorgan (price manipulation, 2020) CFTC 2020-09-29 — judgment CFTC v. Slovakian Men and Their Company (spoofing, 2020) CFTC 2020-09-29 — filed SEC v. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (cash vs derivatives schemes, 2020) SEC 2020-09-29 — filed CFTC v. New York Firm and its Trader (spoofing, 2020) CFTC 2020-09-28 $135k judgment CFTC v. Edge Financial Technologies (spoofing, 2020) CFTC 2020-09-15 $48.4k judgment CFTC v. The Bank of Nova Scotia (spoofing, 2020) CFTC 2020-08-19 $17m judgment CFTC v. The Bank of Nova Scotia (spoofing, 2020) CFTC 2020-08-19 $50m judgment SEC v. Nicholas Mejia Scrivener (layering, 2020) SEC 2020-08-10 $50k settled CFTC v. Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (spoofing, 2020) CFTC 2020-06-18 $9m settled SEC v. Jason C. Nielsen (pump and dump, 2020) SEC 2020-06-10 — filed SEC v. Denis Georgiyevich Sotnikov, et al. (spoofing, 2020) SEC 2020-03-16 — filed CFTC v. Australian Company (spoofing, 2020) CFTC 2020-01-21 $462k judgment CFTC v. South Korean Company (spoofing, 2020) CFTC 2020-01-13 $700k judgment CFTC v. unnamed respondents (spoofing, 2019) CFTC 2019-11-25 — unknown CFTC v. Mitsubishi Corporation RtM Japan Ltd. (spoofing, 2019) CFTC 2019-11-07 $500k judgment CFTC v. Proprietary Trading Firm (spoofing, 2019) CFTC 2019-11-07 $24.4m judgment CFTC v. Chicago Trading Firm Belvedere Trading LLC (spoofing, 2019) CFTC 2019-10-01 $1.1m judgment CFTC v. Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. (spoofing, 2019) CFTC 2019-10-01 $1.5m judgment CFTC v. Trading Firm Mitsubishi International Corporation (spoofing, 2019) CFTC 2019-10-01 $400k judgment CFTC v. Two Trading Firms (spoofing, 2019) CFTC 2019-10-01 $1.5m judgment CFTC v. Chicago Trading Firm and Its Co-Founder (price manipulation, 2019) CFTC 2019-09-30 $1.8m judgment CFTC v. Christian Trunz (spoofing, 2019) CFTC 2019-09-16 — judgment CFTC v. Futures Trader and Industrial Firm (spoofing, 2019) CFTC 2019-09-16 $130k judgment CFTC v. Traders at Major U.S. Bank (price manipulation, 2019) CFTC 2019-09-16 — filed CFTC v. Trader (spoofing, 2019) CFTC 2019-07-31 $150k judgment CFTC v. Corey D. Flaum (price manipulation, 2019) CFTC 2019-07-25 — unknown CFTC v. Merrill Lynch Commodities (price manipulation, 2019) CFTC 2019-06-25 $11.5m judgment CFTC v. Krishna Mohan (spoofing, 2019) CFTC 2019-02-25 — dismissed CFTC v. Andre Flotron (spoofing, 2019) CFTC 2019-02-07 $100k judgment CFTC v. Proprietary Trader (spoofing, 2019) CFTC 2019-01-31 $120k judgment CFTC v. unnamed respondents (insider trading, 2018) CFTC 2018-11-15 — unknown CFTC v. Kamaldeep Gandhi (spoofing, 2018) CFTC 2018-10-12 — judgment CFTC v. the Bank of Nova Scotia (spoofing, 2018) CFTC 2018-10-01 $800k judgment CFTC v. Mizuho Bank (spoofing, 2018) CFTC 2018-09-21 $250k judgment CFTC v. Geneva Trading USA (spoofing, 2018) CFTC 2018-09-20 $1.5m judgment CFTC v. Futures Trader and Trading Firm (cash vs derivatives schemes, 2018) CFTC 2018-09-19 $1.8m judgment CFTC v. Floor Broker Anuj C. Singhal (spoofing, 2018) CFTC 2018-04-09 $150k judgment CFTC v. Andre Flotron (spoofing, 2018) CFTC 2018-01-29 — filed CFTC v. Deutsche Bank (price manipulation, 2018) CFTC 2018-01-29 $30m judgment CFTC v. HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. Pay $1.6 Million Penalty (spoofing, 2018) CFTC 2018-01-29 $1.6m judgment CFTC v. James Vorley and Cedric Chanu (spoofing, 2018) CFTC 2018-01-29 — filed CFTC v. Jiongsheng Zhao (spoofing, 2018) CFTC 2018-01-29 — filed CFTC v. Jitesh Thakkar and Edge Financial Technologies (spoofing, 2018) CFTC 2018-01-29 — filed CFTC v. Three Banks (price manipulation, 2018) CFTC 2018-01-29 $1.6m judgment CFTC v. Trader Krishna Mohan (spoofing, 2018) CFTC 2018-01-29 — filed CFTC v. UBS (price manipulation, 2018) CFTC 2018-01-29 $15m judgment CFTC v. unnamed respondents (spoofing, 2017) CFTC 2017-11-22 — unknown CFTC v. Arab Global Commodities DMCC (spoofing, 2017) CFTC 2017-10-10 $300k judgment CFTC v. Logista Advisors LLC (spoofing, 2017) CFTC 2017-09-30 $250k judgment CFTC v. Connecticut-Based Tillage Commodities (spoofing, 2017) CFTC 2017-09-29 $150k judgment CFTC v. The Bank (spoofing, 2017) CFTC 2017-08-08 $600k judgment CFTC v. New York Trader Simon Posen (spoofing, 2017) CFTC 2017-07-27 $635k judgment CFTC v. unnamed respondents (spoofing, 2017) CFTC 2017-06-30 $350k judgment CFTC v. David Liew (price manipulation, 2017) CFTC 2017-06-03 — judgment CFTC v. Former Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Traders Stephen Gola and Jonathan Brims (cash vs derivatives schemes, 2017) CFTC 2017-03-31 $350k judgment
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