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Some of DeFi’s Leading Investors Are Backing a New Options Protocol
Observations & Insight The SEC issued an "Opinion of the Commission" on Monday in a case between ABN AMRO Chicago LLC and Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. and C2 Options Exchange, Inc. Here is a summary of the opinion: "ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago LLC petitions...
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VIX Plaintiffs Lose Bid to Unmask Traders Tied to 2018 Spike
Observations & Insight Larry Abrams - Open Outcry Traders History Project - Part 1 JohnLothianNews.com Larry Abrams' career started with a chance encounter on a ski lift which was prompted by a good deed. He and some friends helped to push a stranded car that was...
How Options Trading Is Driving Up Stocks—and Driving Them Down
Lead Stories How Options Trading Is Driving Up Stocks—and Driving Them Down Andrew Bary - Barron's Options trading by retail investors may account for the strength in the S&P 500 during the morning this year and weakness in the afternoon. The S&P 500 is up 9%...
FIA Tech Extends Platform To US Listed Options
Observations & Insight Ed Tilly: Opportunities at Cboe Global Markets - MWE World of Opportunity JohnLothianNews.com Cboe Global Markets Executive Chairman & CEO Ed Tilly sat down with John Lothian News over Zoom for the MarketsWiki Education World of...
GameStop and AMC Stocks Bounce Back. Short Sellers Got Burned Again.
Observations & Insight Lead Stories GameStop and AMC Stocks Bounce Back. Short Sellers Got Burned Again. Connor Smith - Barron's After a lackluster month for shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings and GameStop, both roared higher on Tuesday, burning short sellers...
SEC hits UBS with $8 million fine after a complex VIX-linked product burned investors
Observations & Insight Lead Stories SEC hits UBS with $8 million fine after a complex VIX-linked product burned investors Markets Insider Switzerland's UBS has reached an $8 million settlement with the SEC after it failed to protect investors from a complex...
Record Stock Rally Ignores Wall Street’s Phobia About Optimism
Observations & Insight The Spread - July 16, 2021 JohnLothianNews.com Options traders torn between higher Inflation and steady Fed policy; June market share up at MIAX; John Lothian talks about a World of Opportunity; SEC charges binary options shop with fraud;...
Crypto Insiders Posit Bitcoin Price Floor Around $30,000 Level
Observations & Insight Meaghan Dugan Cooks Up a Stellar Path to Electronic Trading JohnLothianNews.com NYSE executive Meaghan Dugan always worked in kitchens as a youth and had dreams of becoming a famous chef. She even earned a degree in culinary science....
ETF industry on track for record year as investor inflows reach $659bn
Observations & Insight Tim Brennan Took the Leap to a New Frontier of Trading JohnLothianNews.com Tim Brennan did not know what he wanted to do after graduating from a small liberal arts college with a degree in psychology. As with many other traders from this...
Fractured Libor transition halts US structured rates switch
Lead Stories Fractured Libor transition halts US structured rates switch; Issuance of non-Libor caps and floors dries up as lending markets mull array of credit-sensitive SOFR rivals Natasha Rega-Jones - Risk.net Attempts to shunt US interest rate option products onto...
Wall Street charges ahead but some option traders hedge against sharp pullback
Lead Stories Wall Street charges ahead but some option traders hedge against sharp pullback Saqib Iqbal Ahmed - Reuters Even with U.S. stocks scaling record highs day after day and Wall Street's "fear gauge" showing a low level of worry, some corners of the options...
Hedge funds took profits as U.S. oil price hit highest in more than six years
Observations & Insight The Spread - July 9, 2021 JohnLothianNews.com Chicago, a data destination; the SEC, Robinhood and payment for order flow; John Lothian weighs in with his take; Retail trading continues to percolate; and Cboe's Kevin Davitt explains the...
Individual Investors Take Aim at Carver Bancorp as Next Short-Squeeze Target
Observations & Insight MarketsWiki Education's World of Opportunity 2021 Virtual Event Announced For July 21 John Lothian News is pleased to announce a 2021 virtual event for the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity series. The one-day, 60-minute event will...
‘A Narrative of Fear’: Plunging Stocks Finally Heed Bond Signal
Observations & Insight Dear Mr. President, Almost 100 years ago President Calvin Coolidge said, "The business of (the United States of) America is business." The first business from before our nation's founding that drove its development and rapid expansion was...
Record Everything in U.S. Stock Market, Including Retail Froth
Observations & Insight ****SC: Cboe Global Markets reported its June 2021 monthly trading volume statistics across global business lines late Tuesday and also provided guidance for revenues per contracts for second-quarter 2021. Among the month's volume highlights...
Retail Investors Power the Trading Wave With Record Cash Inflows
Observations & Insight The Spread - July 2, 2021 JohnLothianNews.com Finra socks Robinhood with its biggest-ever fine; Cboe acquires Chi-X Asia Pacific; OCC reports another volume gain; NIO takes its cue from options; John Lothian weighs in with his take; Looking...
