Observations & Insight Nasdaq's Kevin Kennedy Discusses GEMX Launch on AWS Cloud, Highlights Latency Improvements and Future Cloud Migration Plans JohnLothianNews.com Nasdaq has been moving its markets to the cloud, and it recently announced GEMX had moved to its...
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Gold Bars and Tokyo Apartments: How Money Is Flowing Out of China
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Today is GivingTuesday. According to the official GivingTuesday website, "GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good." I encourage you to make a donation to your...
Stock-market ‘fear gauge’ tumbles to nearly 4-year low. That makes some traders extremely nervous.
Observations & Insight This newsletter is about non-price-oriented risks. Back when it started, the largest risk to the financial markets, including futures, options and securities trading, was the advent of electronic trading. Electronic trading was the runaway...
How to Fix a $2.2 Trillion FX Risk After 50 Years of Trying
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff This newsletter is about non-price-oriented risks. Back when it started, the largest risk to the financial markets, including futures, options and securities trading, was the advent of electronic trading....
Crypto power struggle enters new stage with Binance settlement
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) is getting ready to launch China treasury bond futures in Hong Kong, if approved by the regulators, The Trade reported and HKEX and Hong Kong's Securities and Futures...
Nvidia Options Hand Rare Gains to Traders Betting on Calmness
Observations & Insight Editor's Note: In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday in the US JLN Option will not be published Thursday or Friday (Nov 23-24). We will be back on Monday, November 27. For those in the US, have a great Thanksgiving! ++++ Options...
Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff SBF may have some company depending on what sentence CZ gets for the criminal charges he pled guilty to as part of the settlement yesterday with the SEC, CFTC and DOJ. The Financial Times reported "Binance chief...
US life insurers piled into index options in Q2
Observations & Insight The CME Group is holding "The Crypto Classic Cryptocurrency Futures and Options Trading Challenge" and you can register today. The start date of the challenge is December 10 at 5:00 p.m. CT and it ends on December 15, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. CT....
Kraken sued by SEC in latest clampdown on crypto exchanges
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Tuesday's Children, the charity that supports military families and the 9/11 community, honored retired market analyst Richard Repetto at their Casino Night fundraiser on November 15, 2023. Rich gave a speech at the...
How Bullish Are Investors on Nvidia Now? Options Offer a Clue
Lead Stories How Bullish Are Investors on Nvidia Now? Options Offer a Clue Charley Grant and Gunjan Banerji - The Wall Street Journal Nvidia shares have been flying higher ahead of the company's earnings, which are due Tuesday. One clue from the options market...
Company Led by Former NYSE President Buys Crypto News Site CoinDesk
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff OpenAI fired CEO Sam Altman, then spent the weekend trying to figure out how to bring him back after pressure from executives and investors. In the end, Microsoft hired Altman to lead a "new advanced research...
Hefty options ‘disaster hedges’ draw buyers as US stocks extend rally
Lead Stories Hefty options 'disaster hedges' draw buyers as US stocks extend rally Saqib Iqbal Ahmed - Reuters A string of hefty bets on a doubling of Wall Street's best known volatility index is raising eyebrows in the U.S. equity options markets, though analysts say...
Muni Bond Blowup Exposes Flaws in $600 Billion Corner of Market
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Last night's fundraiser in Chicago in support of the Pathway to Adventure Council of the Boy Scouts of America at the CBOT Building was a big success. There was a bigger crowd than expected and the total raised...
Options traders are piling into bullish bets on small-cap stocks at a record pace
Observations & Insight Market Makers in the Options Industry: Eric Cott, Former Advisor in Education at the OIC, Discusses Market Makers and More in This Options Discovery Full Interview JohnLothianNews.com In this Options Discovery full interview, Asma Awass...

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Jeff Bergstrom is an editor at John Lothian News and chief information officer of John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. Bergstrom is also a contributing editor of JLN Options and JLN Financials.