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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...
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Gold Has Taken a Beating — but Hasn’t Lost Its Shine; Nasdaq halts trading on certain ETF options
Lead StoriesGold Has Taken a Beating — but Hasn't Lost Its Shine. How to Play a Potential Rally.Steven M. Sears - Barron'sGold is back. Despite what you may have read in recent days about gold's price decline, institutional investors are aggressively...
Not Over Yet: Twists And Turns Still Ahead Including Nike Earnings, Quadruple Witching; Nasdaq resumes trading of certain ETF options
See also: Cboe exchange files to list new short volatility ETF; Easing Worries Push Investors Out of Havens, Drive Stocks to New Highs, and more.
U.K. Assets Rally as Johnson Landslide Sweeps Through Market; After big rise, pound to pause around $1.35, options markets suggest
Lead Stories U.K. Assets Rally as Johnson Landslide Sweeps Through Market Sam Potter and Charlotte Ryan - Bloomberg For a while on Friday the only thing more decisive than Boris Johnson's general election victory was the market reaction that...
Hedge or Be Damned Is the Election Mantra: Trading Brexit; China’s Unfazed Yuan Traders Bet Tariffs Won’t Be Hiked
See also: Barclays sells equity options trading division to GTS, ‘Black Swan’ Index Flashes Yellow: Wall Street Is Not Scared, and more.
Traders Buy Hedges ‘Like World Is About to End’; Investors Are Terrified of the 2020 Election
See also: Even as pound rallies, traders wary of post-election downside, options show; Russell Rhoads’ Derivatives Look Forward: 2020 Options Market Predictions, and more.
Cboe Buys EuroCCP to Bolster Dutch EU Base After Brexit; Wall Street’s Fear Gauge Is Acting Up. It May Signal Trouble
Lead Stories Cboe Buys EuroCCP to Bolster Dutch EU Base After Brexit Reuters via NYT Cboe Global Markets said on Tuesday it would take full control of EuroCCP, Europe's largest clearing house for stock trades, to bolster its post-Brexit base in...
Bakkt Goes Live With Options, Cash-Settled Futures Products; It’s Cheaper to Bet on a Pound Rally and Investors Are Noticing
See also: Just as Hot as ETFs: Options on ETFs, Shenzhen Bourse Introduces Pilot for Trading Stock Options, and more.
Morgan Stanley Soared in Currency Derivatives Before Lira Mess; Time to Get Tactical on European Rates as Returns May Fall
See also: The Big Bet Now Is On Britain’s Unreliable Polls: Trading Brexit, Wave Goodbye to Libor. Welcome Its Successor, SOFR, and more.
Investor pockets $13 million on one trade by betting big against the S&P 500 right before Monday’s steep drop
See also: ; Wall Street’s high-stake bets on calm less risky than they seem, Traders Eye Long-Term Hedges on the S&P 500, Two-thirds of Americans don’t feel the benefits of Wall St rally, and more.
Why Markets Have Lost Their Cool; Stock Sell-Off Is a Wake-Up Call for Investors
See also: Hedge funds pile into petroleum on rosier economic outlook, Pound jumps above $1.31 to seven-month high on expectation of Conservative majority, and more.
Large investor lays out $31 million options hedge against U.S. stock market drop; The fear of missing out will punish you once the stock market starts to make a ‘blow-off top’
Observations & Insight OCC Monthly Volume by Exchange - November 2019 Lead Stories Large investor lays out $31 million options hedge against U.S. stock market drop Saqib Iqbal Ahmed - Reuters Monday's slide in U.S. stocks prompted at least...
VIX Is Low. That May Be Because of All the Volatility ETPs; Traders’ Expectations for Stock Volatility Near Lowest Since 2018
Lead Stories VIX Is Low. That May Be Because of All the Volatility ETPs Joanna Ossinger - Bloomberg Exchange-traded products are taking up a bigger chunk of Cboe Volatility Index futures trading than they have in about seven years, and that...
Never in the History of the Euro Has Volatility Been This Low; Hong Kong Stock’s 78% Tumble Adds to Wave of Sudden Crashes
Observations & Insight EDITOR'S NOTE: JLN Options will not be published Thursday or Friday. Have a great Thanksgiving holiday (if you are in the US)! Tony Saliba - Open Outcry Traders History Project JohnLothianNews.com Tony Saliba was interviewed by...
Mounting Bearish Bets on Japan Stocks Is Nothing to Worry About, Analyst Says; Do financial derivatives impact corporate innovation?
Observations & Insight Trading platform migration complete, Cboe's Chris Isaacson outlines next steps JohnLothianNews.com Chris Isaacson, Cboe Global Markets executive VP and chief operating officer, talked to JLN at FIA Expo 2019 about the...
Ray Dalio Says Bridgewater Has No Net Short Bet Against Stocks; Oil rally pauses as hedge funds await trade talks
The Spread: The CEM Gets SA-CC'd JohnLothianNews.com This week on The Spread: the CEM is succeeded by the SA-CCR after a final ruling by the Fed, the FDIC, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the other OCC); MIAX launches SPIKES...
