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Alarm Bells Ringing in Options Market Point to Volatility Ahead; Money Stuff: You Can’t Just Call Loans Options
See also: Options Traders Resist Growing ETF, Index Influence; Libor’s Demise Will Upend How Hugely Popular Derivatives Work, and more.
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A $50 Billion Bond Trade Embraced by Goldman Hinges on ETF Gains; Volatility Heats Up But Volume Doesn’t
See also: With commission-free trading nearly everywhere, here’s what investors should demand now; U.S. Companies Advised to Prepare for Multiple Benchmark Rates in Transition from Libor, and more.
The Stealthy Bear Stalking the Dow; The Short-Volatility Trade Is Now So Big It’s Starting to Break
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter Observations & InsightCorrection on my earlier comment in today's JLN Newsletter: the OCC's proposed new regulatory committee was not purely a "good faith" gesture towards the SEC. It was...
IMF Growth Forecasts: World Economy Is Stumbling Toward Disaster
See also: CME Group Statement on Vanity Fair Article, Currency risks? U.S. corporates yawn – and more.
Risk of Big Rates Swings on Brexit Vote Is Options Trading Arena; Charles Schwab on no-commission trading: ‘Wall Street would have never done this’
See also: The Weekly Fix: Coming Full-Circle to a Mid-Cycle Adjustment; Wave and Vertalo start by tokenizing yield, with race horses and whiskey as long term possibilities, and more.
A Guy on Reddit Turns $766 Into $107,758 on Two Options Trades; Nobel laureate Myron Scholes says his models show the smart money is pessimistic
See also: Exchange Landscape Gearing Up for Expansion in 2020, Negative U.S. Interest Rates? Options Traders Say Yes, and more.
The Market’s Brexit Enthusiasm Is Exaggerated; Fear Gauge at 11-Week Low May Give Stocks the ‘All Clear’
See also: Intercontinental Exchange Completes Acquisition of the Merrill Lynch Option Volatility Estimate, Option Block 846: Befuddled By An Old Nemesis, and more.
As S&P 500 Retries 3,000, Option Sellers May Gird for Battle; Sterling option volatility spikes on Brexit deal news
See also: Bank of America Reports Earnings on Wednesday – How to Play It With Stock Options, Inside Volatility Trading: October 15, 2019 (Jermal Chandler – Cboe Blog), and more.
China Import Slump Casts Gloom Over World Buffeted by Trade War; Pound bruised as Brexit deal doubts creep in
See also: Bulls Come Out of the Woodwork, China Import Slump Casts Gloom Over World Buffeted by Trade War, and more.
Bakkt is looking to beat CME to the punch on options tied to bitcoin; Investors are getting increasingly worried that a recession or major market crash is coming, Allianz says
See also: Wall Street Rush to Safety Is Biggest Since Lehman Brothers Collapse, The Mental Game of Dealing with Volatility, and more.
Exchange provider CME Group expects bitcoin options to be a hit with Asian cryptocurrency traders, miners; Stock Traders Pay Biggest Premium to Shun Volatility in 41 Years
See also: Conflicting Trade Signals Rock Markets With Hours of Chaos, One Investor Is Buying Options Protection on the S&P 500, and more.
Stock Investors Hedged for a Crisis Risk a New ‘Pain Trade’; Bankers brace for no-deal Brexit markets mayhem 10 days early
See also: Germany, France want massive markets push after Brexit, Stock Market Doesn’t Want to Hear Goldman Sachs’s Happy Talk, and more.
Tiny $217 Options Trade on Bitcoin Blockchain Could Be Wall Street’s Death Knell; The Elizabeth Warren stock-market correction will happen sooner than you think: RBC
See also: Hedge Funds Post the Best Performance This Year Since 2013, Stocks Slide After U.S. Expands Export Blacklist, and more.
October Is the Stock Market’s Most-Volatile Month. But Why? Corrections Aren’t Always a Harbinger of Doom
See also: Hedge-Fund Performance Goes From Bad to Less Bad, Hedge funds sell more oil as economic outlook worsens, and more.
One options trader is betting on an end to the market’s wild swings; September Jobs Report: Unemployment Hits New Low, but Signals Are Mixed
See also: Stocks Rebound After ISM Surprise Shows Powell Put Lives, `WeWork Flu’ Strikes at the Heart of the U.S. Equity Market, and more.
(Creative Commons image courtesy of Cszmurlo: https://jlne.ws/2pM2Z5N)
The VIX Is Ready to Spike. That’s Bad News for Stocks; Stocks on tenterhooks as U.S. recession signs build
See also: This Time It’s Different as Stock Traders Were Prepared for Rout; Dow, S&P 500 mark worst start to a quarter since 2008 financial crisis as recession fears accelerate, and more.
