A Member, Approved Trader or Registered Representative shall not:
(a) engage in, or knowingly act with any other Person in, any act or practice that will or is likely to create a false or misleading appearance of active trading in any contract or a false or misleading appearance with respect to the price of any contract;
(b) knowingly execute, or hold out as having executed, an order for the purchase or sale of a contract, without having effected a bona fide purchase or sale of the contract in accordance with this Rules;
(c) induce or attempt to induce another person to trade in a contract:
(i) by making or publishing any statement, promise or forecast that it knows or ought reasonably to know to be false, misleading or deceptive;
(ii) by any dishonest concealment of material facts;
(iii) by the reckless making or publishing of any statement, promise or forecast that is false, misleading or deceptive; or
(iv) by recording or storing in any mechanical, electronic or other device information that is knowingly false or materially misleading;
or
(d) directly or indirectly in connection with any trading in a contract:
(i) employ any device, scheme or artifice to defraud;
(ii) engage in any act, practice or course of business which operates as a fraud or deception, or is likely to operate as a fraud or deception upon any Person;
(iii) make any false statement of a material fact; or
(iv) omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make any statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.