I am a bull. I like to buy. I like to be long. I long to see the market go up and my profits roll in. Marked to the markets, my gut churns up and down with the market. Rising markets and Tums make my stomach feel better. I like being right. I like when the market goes...
John Lothian News is presenting the May 14 Bachelier Options Model virtual panel as a podcast.
James Gordon spent eight years working on the Cboe trading floor as a trader for Timber Hill. His experience, and how he was treated as a trader, was different from others'. He found his way to the exchange through a brother who was a clerk at the CME. Gordon was an...
Margaret Wiermanski is a longtime derivatives industry back office executive turned author. Silent Partners is a murder and financial crime mystery, and the first of three books she intends to write.
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Maureen Obermeier started on the CBOE floor the summer after her freshman year of college and never left. She helped some friends get jobs that summer, and some, like her, stayed and built careers in the markets.
Chess Obermeier started working for his cousin, Charles Obermeier, at the Cboe, and was able to purchase his first membership by his 21st birthday.
During the webinar put on today (Wednesday, May 13, 2020) by the FIA about negative prices and their impact, panelists emphasized the importance of proactive communications with the trading community in mitigating their potential risk. Near the end of the discussion,...
The cryptocurrency marketplace ErisX announced today that they are the first U.S. based exchange to introduce physically settled Ether futures contracts.
Jack Sandner is a former chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and longtime board member of the CME Group. In part two of this interview with John Lothian News for the MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project he talks about how the S&P 500 and Eurodollars started, the tax straddle that caused tax laws to change and his take on spoofing.
Ten Trades a day in the last four to five weeks have made up about 50% of the Eurodollar option volume at the CME Group, says Thomas Fitch of RVassets.
Julie Armstrong is the chief commercial officer of ChartIQ. She talks with John Lothian News about the challenges of firms adapting to working and home and the opportunities for firms like ChartIQ.
Sandner sat for an interview with John Lothian News for the MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project. The interview is broken into two parts to tell the tale of a long and storied career in the Chicago futures markets.
Christian Hauff, CEO of Quantitative Brokers, sat for an interview with John Lothian News about the new futures execution algorithm for options.
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