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Options Markets Brace for Election Volatility; Super Tuesday Hedging Shows Up in Volatility Curves
Observations & Insight Cboe Wraps Up Tech Migration, Expands In Products And In Europe Suzanne Cosgrove - John Lothian News With its multi year technology migration finally wrapped up, Cboe Global Markets is returning its focus in 2020 to...
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Bernie Sanders’s Advance Has Some Traders Betting on Euro Gains
Observations & Insight The Spread: It Takes Two to Contango JohnLothianNews.com This week on The Spread - low natural gas prices lead to an increase in swaptions trading, the CME has another successful launch, and a Binance-backed exchange...
Global Futures and Options Trading Reaches Record Level in 2019; Volatility-Targeting Funds Leverage Up at Fastest Since ‘18 Rout
Observations & Insight Cboe tweeted yesterday that average daily volume for FLEX options in 2019 hit record highs, surpassing the record set in 2018 by 49,408 contracts.~MR Lead Stories Global Futures and Options Trading Reaches Record Level in 2019...
Stocks Have Rarely Been This Quiet in the Past 50 Years; Fed’s Kaplan Warns Central Bank Actions Are Driving Up Risk Taking
Lead Stories Stocks Have Rarely Been This Quiet in the Past 50 Years Amrith Ramkumar - WSJ The S&P 500 is in one of its longest streaks without a 1% daily move in the past five decades, highlighting how the latest leg of the stock-market...
Carefree investors should heed lessons from 2018 shake-out; Euro Volatility Hits Record Low in Defiance of Market Theory
Lead Stories Carefree investors should heed lessons from 2018 shake-out Robin Wigglesworth - Financial Times Financial markets have suffered a few frights already this year, but despite the shocks delivered by US president Donald Trump and...
Oil price slides as hedge funds’ buying fades; As investor optimism nears 2-year highs, analysts warn of stock-market pullback
Lead Stories Oil price slides as hedge funds' buying fades John Kemp - Reuters Despite the increase in tensions across the Middle East after the killing of an Iranian general by a U.S. air strike, hedge fund managers added only modestly to...
Investors Are Counting on Earnings to Rebound in 2020; Oil price slides as hedge funds’ buying fades
Observations & Insight ...in with the new JohnLothianNews.com This week on The Spread - the OCC and CME report cause to celebrate, bitcoin options products abound, and the options markets react to retaliation from Iran. Watch the video »...
JLN Options: Mexico Pays $1 Billion to Hedge Its 2020 Oil Exports; As U.S. election heats up, investors brace for volatility
See also: Emerging market FX set to falter again this year, Largest Crypto Options Exchange Heads for Panama Amid Scrutiny, and more.
Options trader bets $4 million on a major volatility spike; Crisis-hardened markets have learned to look past military flare-ups
Lead Stories Options trader bets $4 million on a major volatility spike Tyler Bailey - CNBC Stocks surged to all-time highs Thursday morning, a day after President Donald Trump said Iran appeared to be standing down after it launched missiles...
‘50 Cent’ Volatility Buying Crops Up After Market Flare-Up Fades; A Wild Night for Global Markets Leaves Bulls Back in Control
Lead Stories '50 Cent' Volatility Buying Crops Up After Market Flare-Up Fades Luke Kawa - Bloomberg The volatility buyer dubbed "50 Cent" appears to have resurfaced, buying up market hedges as calm returned in the aftermath of a flare-up in...
SOFR Options Debut; A War With Iran Would Make Markets Crazy
Lead Stories SOFR Options Debut; First Trades Anticipate Higher Volatility Elizabeth Stanton - Bloomberg Options on SOFR futures became available for trading Monday, and 10 contracts changed hands -- five lots of a straddle, in which a put and...
More Investors Play the Stock-Options Lottery; Payback Time Arrives for Stocks as Geopolitics Shatters Calm
Observations & Insight Options Markets To Get Liquidity Boost Matt Raebel - JLN A new rule finalized last month by the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency might...
Just Two Days Into Year, Middle East Tensions Interrupt Market’s Celebration; Oil Prices Jump, and Stocks Slide, After U.S. Kills Iranian General
See also: Interactive Brokers Closes Out 2019 with Pretty Weak Volumes; Don’t laugh: Here’s why the ‘great rotation’ from bonds to stocks could finally happen in 2020, and more.
Vanguard Joins the Crowd, Cutting Trading Commissions to Zero; Options Volumes Thin After Record Year
See also: China to trial interest rate options trading on Feb.24, Bet on Drops in ‘Stretched’ Nasdaq, Credit ETFs, BTIG Says, and more.
Bitcoin Options Introduction Subdued in Wake of Futures Letdown; Stocks and Bonds Haven’t Rallied Like This Since 1998
See also: Cboe responds to speed bump comments, WEX Provides Complex Options Tech on Montreal Exchange, and more.
China launches gold options as prices near six-year highs; U.S. Stocks Move Higher on Quadruple-Witching Day
See also: JPMorgan Mulls Upping Vol Call as Clients Protest Recommendation; U.S. gas volatility diminishes on higher output and exports: Kemp, and more.