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OCC liquidity risk doubles to all-time high in Q2

OCC liquidity risk doubles to all-time high in Q2

Lead Stories OCC liquidity risk doubles to all-time high in Q2; Concentration of activity around June expiration responsible for record rise Joshua Walker - Risk.net The estimated largest payment obligation Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) could have faced had a...

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Cboe’s CEO Resigns Over Undisclosed Personal Relationships

Cboe’s CEO Resigns Over Undisclosed Personal Relationships

Observations & Insight Nick Solinger Reflects on FIA Tech Role, Its Future and IDX Takeaways JohnLothianNews.com In this JLN video interview from this year's FIA IDX in London, JLN Correspondent Julie Ros talked to Nick Solinger, the president of FIA Technology...

‘Witching day’ price spikes point to options market manipulation – study

Triple-Witching Day: Are Options Markets Being Manipulated?

Lead Stories Triple-Witching Day: Are Options Markets Being Manipulated? Mark Hulbert - Barron's Be on your guard against market manipulation on Friday, Sept. 15, which is a triple-witching day. "Triple witching" refers to those four days each year—the third Fridays...

Gambling on Options Is Fun

Gambling on Options Is Fun

Lead Stories Gambling on Options Is Fun; Also a Sculptor lawsuit, Jamie Dimon on bank capital rules and a 2x levered Bitcoin ETF. Matt Levine - Bloomberg There was just a very strong case that, if you wanted to make long-term retirement investments, buying stocks was...

Amateurs Pile Into 24-Hour Options: ‘It’s Just Gambling’

Amateurs Pile Into 24-Hour Options: ‘It’s Just Gambling’

Observations & Insight The Spikes futures funeral has been put on hold as MIAX has filed a petition to the Washington, DC Court of Appeals asking them to review the matter. This starts a new 60-day clock that will keep Spikes futures trading through January 1,...

Volatility Insights: Evaluating the Market Impact of SPX 0DTE Options

Volatility Insights: Evaluating the Market Impact of SPX 0DTE Options

Lead Stories Volatility Insights: Evaluating the Market Impact of SPX 0DTE Options Mandy Xu - Cboe Trading in zero days to expiry options, so called 0DTEs, have exploded in popularity in recent years - rising from 5% of SPX options volume in 2016 to over 40% since the...

Wall Street’s Fear Gauge Due for 1100% Jump, Some Traders Bet

Wall Street’s Fear Gauge Due for 1100% Jump, Some Traders Bet

Observations & Insight Options Discovery Episode 19: Intro To Entrepreneurship And Brokerages In The Options Industry JohnLothianNews.com In this episode of Options Discovery, Asma Awass explains what brokers are in the options industry and the services they...

FSB warns of risks posed by hedge funds’ ‘hidden leverage’

FSB warns of risks posed by hedge funds’ ‘hidden leverage’

Lead Stories FSB warns of risks posed by hedge funds' 'hidden leverage'; Top financial policymakers step up concerns over impact of bets on bonds Laura Noonan and Costas Mourselas - Financial Times Financial policymakers have singled out a group of hedge funds as a...

Short-term investors in SPY and QQQ warned of options risks

Short-term investors in SPY and QQQ warned of options risks

Observations & Insight Editor's Note: In observance of the Labor Day holiday in the United States there will be no JLN Options on Monday, September 4. We'll be back on Tuesday. Have a great weekend! Lead Stories Short-term investors in SPY and QQQ warned of...

VIX Volatility Index Competitor MIAX’s Spikes Futures to Stop Trading

VIX Volatility Index Competitor MIAX’s Spikes Futures to Stop Trading

Lead Stories VIX Volatility Index Competitor MIAX's Spikes Futures to Stop Trading Katherine Doherty - Bloomberg The financial market's biggest and most prominent measure of fear could soon see its only competitor disappear. After a federal judge last month sided with...

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