First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Today's lead story in JLN via the Financial Times is penned by none other than former FT and now freelance journalist Jeremy Grant. The story is part of a Special Report by the FT on Risk Management. Jeremy's...
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The Worst Of The Stock Market Crash May Be Yet To Come, According To Wall Street’s ‘Fear Gauge’ Signal
Observations & Insight Options Industry Conference Celebrates 40th Anniversary Anna Lyudvig - MarketsMedia The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) will host its 40th annual Options Industry Conference on May 10-12, 2022 at La Cantera Resort & Spa in San...
FIA Tech launches client services and operations center in Tampa
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Jon Herrick has returned to the NYSE and assumed the newly created position of head of markets. In this role, Jon is responsible for the NYSE's transactions businesses, including the product roadmap, market...
Day Trader Army Loses All the Money It Made in Meme-Stock Era
Observations & Insight Cboe Completes Acquisition of ErisX; CME Group to Launch options on Micro WTI Crude Oil futures; Cboe FX Markets' Trading Volume Drops JohnLothianNews.com "Alex Perry's Optionstopia" takes a look at this week's options news highlights: Cboe...
Day Trader Army Loses All the Money It Made in Meme-Stock Era
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Texas was roasted by record heat on Saturday, with San Antonio, the site of this week's Options Industry Conference hitting a record 101 degrees on Saturday, matching the record temperature also set in Amarillo,...
MIAX-parent Miami International Holdings confidentially files for U.S. IPO
Observations & Insight FIA's International Derivatives Expo is returning to The Brewery in London this coming 6-8 June. Standing still is not an option in today's evolving cleared derivatives environment. Without adapting to new products, processes, technologies...
Commodities Trader ED&F Man in Talks to Sell Brokerage Business
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Boeing decided to move its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Va., after the 20-year deal the City of Chicago gave Boeing expired and there are better reasons to be closer to the decision-makers in...
Nasdaq tumbles 5% in sharpest fall since 2020
Observations & Insight FIA's International Derivatives Expo is returning to The Brewery in London this coming 6-8 June. Standing still is not an option in today's evolving cleared derivatives environment. Without adapting to new products, processes, technologies...
ICE exchange expands in mortgage tech with $13bn deal for Black Knight
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Yesterday was the 28th of 28 radiation treatments for me for prostate cancer and I rang the bell after completing treatment at the Nancy W. Knowles Cancer Center in Elmhurst, Ill., signifying completion. I still...
Stock Market Angst Is Off the Charts Even for the Day of a Fed Meeting
Observations & Insight JohnLothianNews.com Martin Franchi, CEO of NinjaTrader Group, sees its mission as "bringing futures trading to a more mainstream place." With the rise of the retail trader, NinjaTrader - which historically has been a downloadable application...
Wall Street Isn’t Ready for the Crackdown Coming Its Way
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Disneyesque automaton versions of ErisX Head of Product Ian Grieves and Head of Marketing Jessica Darmoni starred in a short Youtube promotional video announcing the closing of the deal for Cboe to acquire ErisX...
Investors Are So Bearish on Stock Market That Wall Street Looks Bullish
Observations & Insight John Davidson on OCC's technology changes, options education, and the challenges of continuing options growth JohnLothianNews.com John Davidson is CEO of the OCC, a position he has held since December of 2018. He spoke with John Lothian at...
Facing a Wheat Crisis, Countries Race to Remake an Entire Market on the Fly
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The SEC announced plans to nearly double the size of its crypto assets and cyber unit responsible for protecting investors in the crypto markets and from cyber-related crimes. The unit will be renamed as the...
Bitcoin (BTC) Miners Are Selling Options to Raise Cash, Avoid Selling Tokens
Observations & Insight FIA's International Derivatives Expo is returning to The Brewery in London this coming 6-8 June. Standing still is not an option in today's evolving cleared derivatives environment. Without adapting to new products, processes, technologies...

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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.