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Manager Who Timed March Bottom Cuts Risk With ‘Alarm’ Sounding; Stocks jittery as record U.S. virus count curbs risk appetite
Manager Who Timed March Bottom Cuts Risk With ‘Alarm’ Sounding; Stocks jittery as record U.S. virus count curbs risk appetite
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Will quadruple witching mark the start of a rocky stretch for U.S. stocks? Wall Street Rewrites Market Playbooks for Pandemic’s Second Wave
Will quadruple witching mark the start of a rocky stretch for U.S. stocks? Wall Street Rewrites Market Playbooks for Pandemic’s Second Wave
Hedge Fund That Went Long the VIX in January Is Up 39% This Year
Observations & Insight Walt Lukken Invites you to Attend FIA IDX-V JohnLothianNews.com FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken invites you to attend IDX-V on June 23 to 25 in this video shot in his home and edited by John Lothian News. Watch the video » Lead Stories...
Bloomberg urges users to get set for negative US rates
Observations & Insight ****SC: Cboe Options Exchange resumed pit trading Monday as planned. About half the usual number of traders came back to a reconfigured trading floor designed with social distancing and stringent health and safety protocols, the exchange...
Wall Street Is Prepping for Fresh Waves of Market Volatility
Observations & Insight Catherine Clay: Cboe's Information Solutions Using Data Tools To Build Business JohnLothianNews.com After capping a series of acquisitions with the purchase of Trade Alert, Cboe's senior vice president and head of information solutions talks...
Traders Test Fed’s Power With Bets on More Currency Volatility; Wall Street’s ‘fear gauge’ jumps on fears of coronavirus resurgence
Lead Stories Traders Test Fed's Power With Bets on More Currency Volatility Susanne Barton and Robert Fullem - Bloomberg Citi's Fitzpatrick recommends 6-month euro-dollar call options; Expect 'virus differentiation across economies': Deutsche...
The stock market’s fear gauge spikes 13% after Fed warns of prolonged labor-market damage; Cboe Revives Mini VIX Product Aimed at CTAs
Lead Stories The stock market's fear gauge spikes 13% after Fed warns of prolonged labor-market damage Ben Winck - Markets Insider Wall Street's go-to volatility gauge leaped as much as 12.7% early Thursday in the wake of Federal Reserve chair...
CME Group to reopen Eurodollar options trading floor in August; Investor Election Jitters Starting to Show Up in Stock Options
Observations & Insight Barchart Survey Provides Customer Insights By Thom Thompson - John Lothian News Barchart published its futures market survey What Drives Futures Market Participants Tuesday. The report resulted from a survey of more...
Speculative Fervor in U.S. Stocks Surges to ‘Stunning’ Levels; Dow slumps 240 points on concerns that the market’s rally has gotten overextended
Observations & Insight Unsung Heroes: OCC's Dan Busby By Sarah Rudolph - John Lothian News Dan Busby has his hands full as head of operations at OCC, but he insists he is having fun. He and his team are responsible for the back office...
Both NYSE Options Floors Open for Business; Institutional Bitcoin Options Volumes Hit Record Highs in May
Observations & Insight The Spread: Derivatives On-Demand JohnLothianNews.com This week on The Spread, FIA announces IDX 2020, the Small Exchange launches, OCC celebrates increased volumes for cleared derivatives trades, and more. Watch the...
Hedge funds braced for second stock market plunge; Airlines Lose Billions of Dollars in the Oil-Market Casino
Lead Stories Hedge funds braced for second stock market plunge Laurence Fletcher - Financial Times Hedge funds are getting ready for another slump in stock markets after growing uneasy that surging prices do not reflect the economic problems...
Cboe adds real-time trade alerts and data with latest acquisition; Someone Just Made a Big Bullish Options Bet on a Singapore ETF
Observations & Insight ****JJL: Ed Tilly and his team at Cboe Global Markets have done it again, buying one of the leading data firms in the markets, Henry Schwartz's Trade Alert LLC, which happens to be a sponsor of JLN. They are starting...
JPMorgan’s Math Shows Why U.S. Stocks Can Keep Rallying; This stock-market rally refuses to conform to norms
Observations & Insight OCC Monthly Volume by Exchange - May 2020 Lead Stories JPMorgan's Math Shows Why U.S. Stocks Can Keep Rallying Justina Lee - Bloomberg Think the sizzling U.S. stock rally is excessive in an economy frozen by...
Wall Street shrugs off violent US protests; ‘Bankrupt in Just Two Weeks’—Individual Investors Get Burned by Collapse of Complex Securities
Observations & Insight JLN Bachelier Options Model Virtual Panel Podcast JohnLothianNews.com John Lothian News is presenting the May 14 Bachelier Options Model virtual panel as a podcast. We have edited the content down to maximize the delivery of...
Battle for Hong Kong Is Shifting to City’s Financial Markets; S.Korea will respond if FX volatility spikes over U.S-China tensions – finmin
Lead Stories Battle for Hong Kong Is Shifting to City's Financial Markets Sofia Horta e Costa and Richard Frost - Bloomberg Hang Seng Index has worst month versus world since 1998; Mainland funds are helping shore up city's battered stocks The...
Extinction by Algos Threatens Chicago’s Silenced Trading Pits; Weakening of Foreign Currencies Opens Up Hedging Options
Observations & Insight ****JJL: CME Group is going to launch Micro E-Mini S&P 500 options and Micro E-Mini Nasdaq-100 futures contracts in the fall. I therefore expect next spring the CME Group will launch E-Nano S&P 500 futures in...