Martin Armstrong has given up the game. Or at least half of it.

The disgraced former commodities and futures trader who cost Japanese investors as much as $1 billon pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities wire and commodities fraud Thursday. He faces up to 5 years in prison when he is sentenced in January by Judge John Keenan of the Southern District of New York.

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