Todays Newsletter
Explainer: How a massive options trade by a JP Morgan fund can move markets
Lead Stories Explainer: How a massive options trade by a JP Morgan fund can move markets Saqib Iqbal Ahmed - Reuters A nearly $16 billion JP Morgan fund is expected to reset its options positions on Friday, potentially adding to equity volatility at the end of a...
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Options Trading is Smashing Records, But the Market Looks Nothing Like it Did Last Year
Observations & Insight MWE SHORT: JJ Kinahan - Seeking Opportunity Everywhere in the Market JohnLothianNews.com In this video from MarketsWiki Education's World of Opportunity event in New York, JJ Kinahan, then the managing director and chief market strategist at...
‘Volatility vortex’ slams into $24tn US government bond market
Observations & Insight MWE SHORT: Richard Sandor - The Building Blocks of the Financial Industry JohnLothianNews.com Dr. Richard Sandor, chairman and CEO of Environmental Financial Products LLC, talks about inventing markets and the evolution of exchanges such as...
Options activity hints U.S. stock market has not reached bottom
Observations & Insight The Spread: OPTIONS DISCOVERY EPISODE 8; LEX LUTHRINGSHAUSEN Full interview Part 2 and Term of the week JohnLothianNews.com In this episode of options discovery, JLN's Alex Teng breaks down the options straddle. He also goes over key...
Put Options Volume Jumps to Record High
Observations & Insight Henry Schwartz of Cboe shared on LinkedIn that "Effective today, there are 55 expiration cycles available for SPX index options. Longest-dated expiry is Dec 2027, while short term weeklys give traders the choice of any expiration any day in...
Pound-Dollar Parity Now a One-in-Four Chance, According to Options Bets
Lead Stories Pound-Dollar Parity Now a One-in-Four Chance, According to Options Bets; Sterling drops toward $1.10 handle and bearish wagers pick up; UK bonds plunge at the prospect of more fiscal stimulus Vassilis Karamanis - Bloomberg Can the pound reach parity...
Volatility Futures Signal Fear Around Latest Fed Meeting
Observations & Insight Among the highlights of the FIA's August 2022 volumes are: Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives reached 7.30 billion contracts in the month of August, the highest monthly total ever recorded. The August total was up 11.2% from...
‘Fear gauge’ futures close to signaling U.S. stock selling crescendo
Lead Stories 'Fear gauge' futures close to signaling U.S. stock selling crescendo Saqib Iqbal Ahmed - Reuters Futures tied to Wall Street's fear gauge are close to sending a signal of growing fear that has sometimes preceded past stock market rebounds. With investors...
Hedge Funds Brave Stock Chaos to Lift Bets by Most in Five Years
Observations & Insight According to a post on a Cboe Alumni page on Facebook, Lee Tenzer has passed away. He was surrounded by his wife Marilyn and daughters Katie, Becca and Missy at a hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Lee was the founder of the trading firm LETCO....
Cboe to Further Expand S&P 500 Index Options Suite with New and Additional Daily Expirations
Lead Stories Cboe to Further Expand S&P 500 Index Options Suite with New and Additional Daily Expirations Cboe Global Markets Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, today announced the...
Options Traders Pile Into Hawkish Fed Wagers Eyeing 5% Peak Rate
Lead Stories Options Traders Pile Into Hawkish Fed Wagers Eyeing 5% Peak Rate Edward Bolingbroke - Bloomberg This week's hawkish repricing of expectations for the Federal Reserve's policy rate path has been spearheaded by a handful of wagers that the peak will be...
A $3.2 Trillion Option Expiration Seen Worsening Post-CPI Rout
Lead Stories A $3.2 Trillion Option Expiration Seen Worsening Post-CPI Rout Lu Wang - Bloomberg Another wrinkle in a chaotic stock market where everything from the frenetic activity of quant traders to an ever-hawkish Federal Reserve is making investing harder than...
Options bets blamed for amplifying U.S. stock-market plunge after hot August CPI reading
Observations & Insight The CME Group loves challenges and the latest is a Micro Cryptocurrency Futures Trading Challenge. During this hands-on, risk-free trading challenge, you can compete against other traders to win cash prizes. And if you are new to trading,...
Stock Options Tape Sprinkled With Bullish Bets in Big Money FOMO
Observations & Insight Lex Luthringshausen Full Interview; Lex Talks IV Rank, IV Percentile, and Straddles With JLN's Alex Teng JohnLothianNews.com In this Options Discovery interview, Lex Luthringshausen from Tradier sits down with Alex Teng to discuss implied...
CME Group Launches Ether Options
Lead Stories CME Group Launches Ether Options Will Feuer - MarketWatch Derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc. said it is launching options contracts on futures tied to the cryptocurrency Ether. The company said the new contracts will deliver one Ether futures, sized...
What Motivates Retail Options Traders?
Lead Stories What Motivates Retail Options Traders? Traders Magazine Retail investor trading in options took off during the COVID pandemic, and in 2020, retail investors accounted for more than $250 billion of total single-name option volume. With the meme stock...
