The Market Technicians Association (MTA) has established ethical standards of professional conduct which every Member and Affiliate shall maintain. The Ethical Standards serve as a guide of professional responsibility and as a benchmark for ethical judgment.

The code of ethics is an extremely important document to MTA Members and Affiliates. Questions relating to ethical conduct of MTA Members appear on every level of the CMT examination process.

For a complete, downloadable copy of the MTA Code of Ethics, please click here.

The MTA has provided an audiocast “informational session” conducted by Charles Comer, CMT, which discusses the MTA Code of Ethics in more depth.

• Listen to an audiocast of the Informational Session

• Download the presentation slides

IMPORTANT NOTICES:

• CMT 3 Exam Grading Update - The purpose of this message is to inform you of a very important change to the CMT 3. The MTA’s Board of Directors unanimously adopted a decision requiring CMT 3 candidates to achieve a pre-determined level of competency in Ethics in order to receive a passing score. This decision reflects the board’s commitment to the understanding and application of ethics, and the critical importance of ethical behavior to our organization, profession and clients. Therefore, candidates will be required to achieve a minimum passing score of 70% on the Ethics section of the CMT 3 exam. This means that candidates MUST receive passing marks on the other sections of the CMT 3 exam AND attain a passing score of at least 70% on the ethics questions to pass the exam. Candidates that receive passing marks on the other sections of the CMT 3 exam but DO NOT attain a score of at least 70% on the ethics questions will not pass the exam and will be required to sit for the entire exam at a later administration of the test. Please consider this decision as you prepare for the upcoming CMT 3 exam.

• CMT 3 Paper Update - Those writing the CMT Level 3 Paper are subject to the same policy as it relates to the "Ethics portion" of the examination. As such, once the CMT 3 paper has been written and approved, the passing of the "ethics" part of the examination is a requirement to obtain the CMT designation. For more information and instructions on this, please contact Marie Penza at Marie@mta.org.