Observations & Insight ****JJL: The CME Group has issued the following notice: "Amendments to and Delisting of Certain CME and CBOT Products in Connection with the Elimination of Most CME and All CBOT Open Outcry Trading Pits and Related Frequently Asked Questions...
First Read $42,416/$300,000 (14.1%) Bruce Sunderland ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The character actor Ned Beatty has died at the age of 83. He acted in 150 movies, including the iconic "Network." While the movie Network might be better known for...
Lead Stories Meme Stocks' Latest Frenzy Isn't About a Short Squeeze Anna Hirtenstein - WSJ Meme stocks have made a comeback, with one big change: this time around, short sellers aren't a big player in the market. Individual investors have been gearing up for some...
First Read $42,376/$300,000 (14.1%) ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff CME Group and FTSE Russell are putting on a webinar TODAY at 11 a.m. ET titled, "Russell U.S. recon: Mitigating risk with derivatives." If you are invested in small cap stocks, you...
Lead Stories GameStop's Wall Street Following Has Dwindled Amid Reddit Frenzy Katrina Lewis - Bloomberg GameStop Corp. is heading into its first-quarter earnings report with half the number of analysts covering the stock than before retail traders helped fuel a...
First Read $42,376/$300,000 (14.1%) ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The new CME Group micro Treasury futures contracts are not the basis point futures I have suggested, but they are very close and maybe better. Certainly the micro name will enhance...
Lead Stories Some on Wall Street try options trade to bet against AMC without getting burned Matt Scuffham, Saqib Ahmed - Reuters Some Wall Street traders are betting against another massive rally in AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (AMC.N) and other "meme" stocks this...
First Read $42,376/$300,000 (14.1%) ++++ Meet El Salvador, Newest Bitcoin Paradise Thom Thompson - John Lothian News On Saturday, June 5, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador announced that he would ask his country's legislature to declare bitcoin "legal tender" in...
Observations & Insight Owain Johnson: World-class Listener, Citizen, Author And Researcher, Sees Acceleration Of Economic Change; CME's Global Head Of Research In London Interviewed By JLN By John J. Lothian - JLN Things are happening so fast amidst an...
First Read ++++ $42,376/$300,000 (14.1%) Trading Technologies ++++ Owain Johnson: World-class Listener, Citizen, Author And Researcher, Sees Acceleration Of Economic Change; CME's Global Head Of Research In London Interviewed By JLN By John J. Lothian - JLN Things are...
Observations & Insight Robin Trott - The Path to Electronic Trading Part Two JohnLothianNews.com In Part Two of Robin Trott - The Path to Electronic Trading, Trott talked about how block trade and call-around markets developed in Europe. Platforms were rushing to...
First Read $42,276/$300,000 (14.1%) ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff For those of you in Chicago, the Union League Club of Chicago is fully open. This ULCC is a home to many industry events, including FIA Washington updates when they are held in...
Observations & Insight Sheldon Cohen - Open Outcry Traders History Project - Part One JohnLothianNews.com Attorney Sheldon Cohen started out his trading career as a risk manager for Goldberg Brothers, a CBOT clearing firm that was later sold to LIT Holdings, and...
First Read $42,276/$300,000 (14.1%) ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The Tokyo Commodity Exchange, or TOCOM, has issued a warning, "Beware of fake TOCOM website." There are three fake websites that look like TOCOM's, but are not. The REAL Tocom...
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