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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Observations & Insight Editor's Note: In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday in the US JLN Option will not be published Thursday or Friday (Nov 23-24).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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.