It shall be unlawful for any person to make any contract for the purchase or sale of any commodity for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility, or any significant price discovery contract traded or executed on an electronic trading facility or any agreement, contract, or transaction that is treated by a derivatives clearing organization, whether registered or not registered, as fungible with a significant price discovery contract—
(1) if such person shall directly or indirectly make such contracts with respect to any commodity or any future of such commodity during any one day in an amount equal to or in excess of such amount as shall be fixed from time to time by the Commission, and
(2) if such person shall directly or indirectly have or obtain a long or short position in any commodity or any future of such commodity equal to or in excess of such amount as shall be fixed from time to time by the Commission,
(Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 4i, as added June 15, 1936, ch. 545, § 5, 49 Stat. 1496; amended Pub. L. 90–258, § 9, Feb. 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 28; Pub. L. 93–463, title I, § 103(a), (f), Oct. 23, 1974, 88 Stat. 1392; Pub. L. 97–444, title II, § 211, Jan. 11, 1983, 96 Stat. 2303; Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 123(a)(9)], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–407; Pub. L. 110–234, title XIII, § 13202(b), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1439; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XIII, § 13202(b), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2201.)