Commodity trading advisor annual report (Form CTA-PR)

The facts

Who files

Every commodity trading advisor registered with the Commission, unless it is exempt from registration or, under the Commission's regulations, does not direct trading in any commodity interest account. Source

How often

Annually, for the CTA's fiscal year. Source

Deadline

Within 45 days of the end of the CTA's fiscal year. Source

Format

Web form. Filed electronically, as for Form CPO-PQR; the Commission allows a CTA to file the National Futures Association's equivalent form instead of filing directly with the Commission. Source

How it is filed

Filing routes recorded for the CFTC: CFTC Portal; WinJammer; NFA EasyFile (Form PQR and Form PR). See how firms file with the CFTC.

Status

In force

Legal basis

• 7 U.S.C. 6n (registration of commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; record keeping and reports)
• 7 U.S.C. 12a (Commission's registration and rulemaking authority)

Group

Commodity pools and trading advisors

Templates (1)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the CFTC's code in brackets.

• Information about the commodity trading advisor and the pools it advises (Schedule A)

The Commission's 2012 rule kept only Schedule A of Form CTA-PR; it dropped the form's Schedule B as duplicative of information already collected on Form CPO-PQR. Source

Validation rules

No published validation rules were found for this return. No published, field-level validation ruleset for Form CTA-PR was found on the pages read. Source

Public data

No published data from this return was found. Form CTA-PR data is collected for the Commission's own monitoring; no public Commission dataset built from it was found on the pages read. Source

Official documents (1)

The CFTC's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 13 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

• Commodity Pool Operators and Commodity Trading Advisors: Amendments to Compliance Obligations (final rule adopting Form CPO-PQR and Form CTA-PR)

  Legal text · HTML · 2 July 2012

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

• cftc.gov/LawRegulation/FederalRegister/FinalRules/2012-3390.html
• govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title7/html/USCODE-2024-title7-chap1-sec6n.htm
• govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title7/html/USCODE-2024-title7-chap1-sec12a.htm

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