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THE JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS DAILY UPDATE (WEEKLY ROUNDUP) – WEEK OF 7/25/2022
The Spread: Options Discovery Episode 5; Complete Interview: Bob Whaley; How price volatility impacts the value of options
OPTIONS DISCOVERY: In episode 5 of Options Discovery, Alex Teng discusses options volatility, beginning with the basics of what is volatility?
A SPREAD INTERVIEW: Bob Whaley Discusses Options Volatility and Volatility Indexes With JLN’s Alex Teng
Term of The Week – How price volatility impacts the value of options – August 3, 2022
Complete Interview: Bob Whaley Discusses Options Volatility and Volatility Indexes With JLN’s Alex Teng
In this exclusive interview for JLN, Alex Teng sits down with Robert Whaley, a professor and the head of market research at Vanderbilt University, to discuss options volatility and Whaley’s work creating some of the most important volatility indexes in the industry.
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Options Discovery Episode 5: Alex Explains Options Volatility; interview with VIX developer Bob Whaley
In this episode of Options Discovery, Alex Teng goes over institutional vs. retail options trading and the advantages and disadvantages for both.
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THE JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS DAILY UPDATE (WEEKLY ROUNDUP) – WEEK OF 7/25/2022
The Spread: Options Discovery Episode 5; Complete Interview: Bob Whaley; How price volatility impacts the value of options
OPTIONS DISCOVERY: In episode 5 of Options Discovery, Alex Teng discusses options volatility, beginning with the basics of what is volatility?
A SPREAD INTERVIEW: Bob Whaley Discusses Options Volatility and Volatility Indexes With JLN’s Alex Teng
Term of The Week – How price volatility impacts the value of options – August 3, 2022
Complete Interview: Bob Whaley Discusses Options Volatility and Volatility Indexes With JLN’s Alex Teng
In this exclusive interview for JLN, Alex Teng sits down with Robert Whaley, a professor and the head of market research at Vanderbilt University, to discuss options volatility and Whaley’s work creating some of the most important volatility indexes in the industry.
Mark Smith’s Path To Electronic Trading: From Banking to Blockchain
Mark Smith started his career at broker-dealer Edward Jones, became an entrepreneur and then after his second firm was purchased by Citi, he found himself working for the bank, which he found an eye-opening experience.
Mark Smith’s Path to Electronic Trading is Awash in Entrepreneurial Drive
The Path to Electronic Trading for Mark Smith started in a pool. He wanted to be an Olympic swimmer, a singular focus that took him to the Olympic trials of 1988 and 1992, but not to the Olympic Games, though he did swim in the Pan American games of 1991.
THE JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS DAILY UPDATE (WEEKLY ROUNDUP) – WEEK OF 7/18/2022
The Spread: Options Discovery Episode 4: Institutional and retail options trading; interview with Chen Liang of Odds.Trade
OPTIONS DISCOVERY: In this episode of Options Discovery, Alex Teng goes over institutional vs. retail options trading and the advantages and disadvantages for both. He also interviews Chen Liang, the co-founder of Odds.Trade, who talks about generating insight from data models and how he developed tools designed for entry level retail traders.
A SPREAD INTERVIEW: The full interview with Chen Liang, the co-founder of Odds.Trade
Complete Interview: Chen Liang, the co-founder of Odds.Trade
In this video for The Spread, Alex Teng spoke with Bill Brodsky, an industry giant who led both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) during his long career.
Wolfgang Eholzer: The History of Financial Futures, Part 2
In part two of the interview with Wolfgang Eholzer for The History of Financial Futures video series from John Lothian News and MarketsWiki Education, Eholzer explains where the names of Eurex’s trade matching engine and other technology came from. Eurex wanted a short name that could be easily copyrighted and easily reproduced for other products.
THE JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS DAILY UPDATE (WEEKLY ROUNDUP) – WEEK OF 7/11/2022
Wolfgang Eholzer: The History of Financial Futures
In 1997, Wolfgang Eholzer decided there were not enough students studying physics and mathematics in Germany to make a career in academia and that maybe finding a job would be a good thing. The question was where was there enough going on. That question led him to Deutsche Boerse, which was starting a new electronic derivatives exchange and hiring like mad. He has been there since.
Complete Interview: Bill Brodsky talks options history, innovations and strategy with JLN’s Alex Teng
In this video for The Spread, Alex Teng spoke with Bill Brodsky, an industry giant who led both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) during his long career.
Veteran Trader Joe Corona Shares His Best Week Trading Ever
In Part Two of our Open Outcry Traders History Project Interview, Corona Tells of Recovering From Horrendous Tuesday Thrashing After Ten Point Bond Jump After Black Monday.
JLN Interviews Simplex CEO Erik Swanson at OIC 2022
JLN interviewed Erik Swanson, the CEO of Simplex Trading, at the 2022 OIC conference in San Antonio, Texas. This is the last video in our JLN Industry Leader video series from the conference.
The Spread: Options Discovery Episode 3 – Covered Call Writing and a Talk With Bill Brodsky
OPTIONS DISCOVERY: Options Discovery episode 3 explains what it means to write, or sell, an options contract and breaks down our first options strategy – a covered call writing strategy.
TERM OF THE WEEK: This week’s Term of The Week is Compensation for a Potential Obligation presented by Euronext Knowledge Centre
Veteran Trader Joe Corona Talks Freely In His Open Outcry Traders History Project Interview – Part One
Joe Corona’s Open Outcry Traders History Project story is a frank discussion of someone who stumbled into the markets as a temporary gig on his way to another career that never happened. Joe started a career in the markets after a friend of a friend helped him get a job as a runner at the Cboe in 1980 after he graduated from Northwestern University, and he never looked back.
Mark Smith’s Path To Electronic Trading: From Banking to Blockchain
Mark Smith started his career at broker-dealer Edward Jones, became an entrepreneur and then after his second firm was purchased by Citi, he found himself working for the bank, which he found an eye-opening experience.
Mark Smith’s Path to Electronic Trading is Awash in Entrepreneurial Drive
The Path to Electronic Trading for Mark Smith started in a pool. He wanted to be an Olympic swimmer, a singular focus that took him to the Olympic trials of 1988 and 1992, but not to the Olympic Games, though he did swim in the Pan American games of 1991.
THE JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS DAILY UPDATE (WEEKLY ROUNDUP) – WEEK OF 7/18/2022
The Spread: Options Discovery Episode 4: Institutional and retail options trading; interview with Chen Liang of Odds.Trade
OPTIONS DISCOVERY: In this episode of Options Discovery, Alex Teng goes over institutional vs. retail options trading and the advantages and disadvantages for both. He also interviews Chen Liang, the co-founder of Odds.Trade, who talks about generating insight from data models and how he developed tools designed for entry level retail traders.
A SPREAD INTERVIEW: The full interview with Chen Liang, the co-founder of Odds.Trade
Complete Interview: Chen Liang, the co-founder of Odds.Trade
In this video for The Spread, Alex Teng spoke with Bill Brodsky, an industry giant who led both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) during his long career.
Wolfgang Eholzer: The History of Financial Futures, Part 2
In part two of the interview with Wolfgang Eholzer for The History of Financial Futures video series from John Lothian News and MarketsWiki Education, Eholzer explains where the names of Eurex’s trade matching engine and other technology came from. Eurex wanted a short name that could be easily copyrighted and easily reproduced for other products.
THE JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS DAILY UPDATE (WEEKLY ROUNDUP) – WEEK OF 7/11/2022
Wolfgang Eholzer: The History of Financial Futures
In 1997, Wolfgang Eholzer decided there were not enough students studying physics and mathematics in Germany to make a career in academia and that maybe finding a job would be a good thing. The question was where was there enough going on. That question led him to Deutsche Boerse, which was starting a new electronic derivatives exchange and hiring like mad. He has been there since.
Complete Interview: Bill Brodsky talks options history, innovations and strategy with JLN’s Alex Teng
In this video for The Spread, Alex Teng spoke with Bill Brodsky, an industry giant who led both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) during his long career.
Veteran Trader Joe Corona Shares His Best Week Trading Ever
In Part Two of our Open Outcry Traders History Project Interview, Corona Tells of Recovering From Horrendous Tuesday Thrashing After Ten Point Bond Jump After Black Monday.
JLN Interviews Simplex CEO Erik Swanson at OIC 2022
JLN interviewed Erik Swanson, the CEO of Simplex Trading, at the 2022 OIC conference in San Antonio, Texas. This is the last video in our JLN Industry Leader video series from the conference.
The Spread: Options Discovery Episode 3 – Covered Call Writing and a Talk With Bill Brodsky
OPTIONS DISCOVERY: Options Discovery episode 3 explains what it means to write, or sell, an options contract and breaks down our first options strategy – a covered call writing strategy.
TERM OF THE WEEK: This week’s Term of The Week is Compensation for a Potential Obligation presented by Euronext Knowledge Centre
Veteran Trader Joe Corona Talks Freely In His Open Outcry Traders History Project Interview – Part One
Joe Corona’s Open Outcry Traders History Project story is a frank discussion of someone who stumbled into the markets as a temporary gig on his way to another career that never happened. Joe started a career in the markets after a friend of a friend helped him get a job as a runner at the Cboe in 1980 after he graduated from Northwestern University, and he never looked back.
Introducing The History of Environmental Trading: Gordon Bennett of ICE
To kick off The History of Environmental Trading video series from John Lothian News and MarketsWiki Education, we interviewed Gordon Bennett of Intercontinental Exchange in ICE’s London headquarters during IDX week in early June.
Options Discovery – Intro to risk with Tony McCormick
This week's episode of Options Discovery discusses risk and what it means in the world of options. Alex Teng sits down with Tony McCormick, the CEO of BOX Exchange - the self regulatory arm of Box Options - to discuss that topic.
THE JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS DAILY UPDATE (WEEKLY ROUNDUP) – WEEK OF 6/27/2022
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