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MWE SHORT: Rich Mackey – From Golfing to Trading: Decision-Making is Key
In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity event in Chicago, Rich Mackey, managing director at Prime Trading, LLC, reminisces about his time as a caddie and how it prepared him for a career in finance.
MWE SHORT: Michael Patak – The Game of Trading
“If you look at this from a game mentality, you can get trading down. You don’t have to be a Harvard grad or anything like that. You can be a country boy from Nebraska.”
MWE SHORT: Paul Georgy – Your Future Starts with You
“We were gung-ho we were going to be commodity brokers. When one of the speakers walked into the room he said within one year, half of you are no longer going to be in business. Within two years, there will only be five of you left in business. And within five years, there’s only going to be one of you left in the business. I’m the survivor and pretty happy about it.”
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LEX LUTHRINGSHAUSEN FULL INTERVIEW; LEX TALKS IV RANK, IV PERCENTILE, AND STRADDLES WITH JLN’S ALEX TENG
In this Options Discovery interview, Lex Luthringshausen from Tradier sits down with Alex Teng.
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Singapore Exchange (SGX) is launching its first lithium and cobalt contracts Monday, joining efforts by commodity exchanges such as the LME and CME to get battery materials companies and investors interested in using futures.
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First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Henry Schwartz of Cboe shared on LinkedIn that "Effective today, there are 55 expiration cycles available for SPX index options. Longest-dated expiry is Dec 2027, while short term weeklys give traders the choice...
Put Options Volume Jumps to Record High
Observations & Insight Henry Schwartz of Cboe shared on LinkedIn that "Effective today, there are 55 expiration cycles available for SPX index options. Longest-dated expiry is Dec 2027, while short term weeklys give traders the choice of any expiration any day in...
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MWE SHORT: Rich Mackey – From Golfing to Trading: Decision-Making is Key
In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity event in Chicago, Rich Mackey, managing director at Prime Trading, LLC, reminisces about his time as a caddie and how it prepared him for a career in finance.
MWE SHORT: Michael Patak – The Game of Trading
“If you look at this from a game mentality, you can get trading down. You don’t have to be a Harvard grad or anything like that. You can be a country boy from Nebraska.”
MWE SHORT: Paul Georgy – Your Future Starts with You
“We were gung-ho we were going to be commodity brokers. When one of the speakers walked into the room he said within one year, half of you are no longer going to be in business. Within two years, there will only be five of you left in business. And within five years, there’s only going to be one of you left in the business. I’m the survivor and pretty happy about it.”
MWE SHORT: Leslie Sutphen – How I Discovered My WILD Side
“I didn’t like the floor very much… It was the [CBOE], which wasn’t quite as rough and tumble as the futures floor, but I still felt kind of like this isn’t really a place for a nice girl like me.”
MWE SHORT: Terry Savage – Five Steps to Creating Wealth
“Don’t bet against America. America will survive and prosper and so will you if you plan, save and invest.”
MWE SHORT: Julie Lerner – Disruptive Tech and Entrepreneurship
“You can’t be an entrepreneur until you get that big idea. And that idea needs to be so big it feels like a curse as much as a blessing in the sense that you know you have to go do it.”
MWE SHORT: Pat Kenny – Trust and Transitions
“You never know who you might be sitting next to right now. It might be someone you run into 20 or 35 years from now and that might be the person that gives you the break you need.”
MWE SHORT: Jim Hourihane – Careers in Compliance
In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s Intern Recruiting Event in Chicago, Jim Hourihane, compliance manager for the National Futures Association, breaks down how the NFA works and what kind of opportunities present themselves in compliance.
MWE SHORT: Gary Barnett – Considerations in Decision-making
“The regulator has to be an enabler. But their mission is to protect investors and help preserve the quality of the market. There’s a mission there that has to be preserved in the face of change.”
MWE SHORT: David Kelbaugh – How to Build a Successful Brand
“Your product or service is how you make your money, your brand is how you’ll be remembered.”
LEX LUTHRINGSHAUSEN FULL INTERVIEW; LEX TALKS IV RANK, IV PERCENTILE, AND STRADDLES WITH JLN’S ALEX TENG
In this Options Discovery interview, Lex Luthringshausen from Tradier sits down with Alex Teng.
MWE SHORT: Julie Armstrong – The Power of the People
Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for more than $26 billion in 2016 and the platform now has more than 500 million users. Need any more proof of the power of networks?
MWE SHORT: Veronica Augustsson – From Sports To Business In An International Arena
“The financial ecosystem is created by business people and it will be changed by technology. It is with technology that we will make a safer world, a better world, a more efficient world that we can trust even more.”
MWE SHORT: Evelin Kaup – Is FinTech a Threat to Banks?
“Yes, fintech is a threat to banks. It’s disturbing the industry – but for the better. It’s speeding up the banks so they need to adapt faster, and we need to run faster to stay around.”
The Spread: OPTIONS DISCOVERY EPISODE 7: A GUIDE TO IV RANK AND IV PERCENTILE; LEX LUTHRINGSHAUSEN BREAKS DOWN IMPLIED VOLATILITY AND HOW TO MEASURE IT WITH JLN’S ALEX TENG
OPTIONS DISCOVERY: A GUIDE TO IV RANK AND IV PERCENTILE; LEX LUTHRINGSHAUSEN BREAKS DOWN IMPLIED VOLATILITY AND HOW TO MEASURE IT WITH JLN’S ALEX TENG
MWE SHORT: Johan Toll – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Blockchain But Were Afraid to Ask
“Instead of having the financial economy we see today with a lot of intermediaries, local custodians and global banks, this could all be replaced by a peer-to-peer community. It’s a massive revolution that probably will happen to our financial industry.”
MWE SHORT: Leslie Sutphen – How I Discovered My WILD Side
“I didn’t like the floor very much… It was the [CBOE], which wasn’t quite as rough and tumble as the futures floor, but I still felt kind of like this isn’t really a place for a nice girl like me.”
MWE SHORT: Terry Savage – Five Steps to Creating Wealth
“Don’t bet against America. America will survive and prosper and so will you if you plan, save and invest.”
MWE SHORT: Julie Lerner – Disruptive Tech and Entrepreneurship
“You can’t be an entrepreneur until you get that big idea. And that idea needs to be so big it feels like a curse as much as a blessing in the sense that you know you have to go do it.”
MWE SHORT: Pat Kenny – Trust and Transitions
“You never know who you might be sitting next to right now. It might be someone you run into 20 or 35 years from now and that might be the person that gives you the break you need.”
MWE SHORT: Jim Hourihane – Careers in Compliance
In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s Intern Recruiting Event in Chicago, Jim Hourihane, compliance manager for the National Futures Association, breaks down how the NFA works and what kind of opportunities present themselves in compliance.
MWE SHORT: Gary Barnett – Considerations in Decision-making
“The regulator has to be an enabler. But their mission is to protect investors and help preserve the quality of the market. There’s a mission there that has to be preserved in the face of change.”
MWE SHORT: David Kelbaugh – How to Build a Successful Brand
“Your product or service is how you make your money, your brand is how you’ll be remembered.”
LEX LUTHRINGSHAUSEN FULL INTERVIEW; LEX TALKS IV RANK, IV PERCENTILE, AND STRADDLES WITH JLN’S ALEX TENG
In this Options Discovery interview, Lex Luthringshausen from Tradier sits down with Alex Teng.
MWE SHORT: Julie Armstrong – The Power of the People
Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for more than $26 billion in 2016 and the platform now has more than 500 million users. Need any more proof of the power of networks?
MWE SHORT: Veronica Augustsson – From Sports To Business In An International Arena
“The financial ecosystem is created by business people and it will be changed by technology. It is with technology that we will make a safer world, a better world, a more efficient world that we can trust even more.”
MWE SHORT: Evelin Kaup – Is FinTech a Threat to Banks?
“Yes, fintech is a threat to banks. It’s disturbing the industry – but for the better. It’s speeding up the banks so they need to adapt faster, and we need to run faster to stay around.”
The Spread: OPTIONS DISCOVERY EPISODE 7: A GUIDE TO IV RANK AND IV PERCENTILE; LEX LUTHRINGSHAUSEN BREAKS DOWN IMPLIED VOLATILITY AND HOW TO MEASURE IT WITH JLN’S ALEX TENG
OPTIONS DISCOVERY: A GUIDE TO IV RANK AND IV PERCENTILE; LEX LUTHRINGSHAUSEN BREAKS DOWN IMPLIED VOLATILITY AND HOW TO MEASURE IT WITH JLN’S ALEX TENG
MWE SHORT: Johan Toll – Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Blockchain But Were Afraid to Ask
“Instead of having the financial economy we see today with a lot of intermediaries, local custodians and global banks, this could all be replaced by a peer-to-peer community. It’s a massive revolution that probably will happen to our financial industry.”
MWE SHORT: Rolf Andersson – Attention To Detail: High Performance Requires Hard Work
“I can’t stress enough the importance of being really good at software in one form or another, whether it’s managing, running projects or sponsoring projects.”
MWE SHORT: Sandra Ro – Financial Services Disruption: the Rise of Bitcoin and Blockchain
“There is this big debate as to whether bitcoin is a currency or a commodity. I would argue that it is its own category.”
MWE SHORT: Tom Sosnoff – Change the Game
“The U.S markets are the global hub of liquidity. That’s why they’re so wonderful. So when you get truly liquid markets, you have very accurate expected value.”
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