Recent changes to FINRA’s suitability rule may have implications for the futures industry. The futures industry has never had a suitability rule. In 1978, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) considered adopting one but decided against it, opting instead to impose on a Series 3 broker a robust duty to disclose the risks and let the customer decide whether to engage in futures trading.1 When the NFA adopted Compliance Rule 2-30, it followed the CFTC’s lead: “Once … the customer has been given adequate disclosure, the customer is free to make the decision whether to trade futures and…