Reddit Is Chief Suspect as Volatility ETF Swells to $2.6 Billion; Treasury Volatility Is Just Starting With Big Swings on the Way
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Online-Trading Platform Will Let Investors Bet on Yes-or-No Questions; Call for SEC to regulate index providers as investment advisers
Online-Trading Platform Will Let Investors Bet on Yes-or-No Questions; Call for SEC to regulate index providers as investment advisers
Bullish US options trading suggests caution ‘thrown aside’; Wall St traders warn of slowdown after best quarter in a decade
Bullish US options trading suggests caution ‘thrown aside’; Wall St traders warn of slowdown after best quarter in a decade
Options Traders Eye Bullish Bets on Emerging Markets; Morgan Stanley Returns to Tough Derivatives Niche in Asia
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Traders exit complex oil options as Cushing supplies tighten; Can Direct CCP Clearing Address Concentration Challenges?
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Israeli Firm Stole Millions Using Bogus Options – CFTC; Junior RBC analyst charged with insider trading
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter Lead StoriesIsraeli Firm Stole Millions Using Bogus Options, CFTC SaysJanan Hanna - Bloomberg (SUBSCRIPTION)Four Israeli citizens and the financial firms they owned or operated were sued by...
Deutsche Bank sets equity derivatives sale deadline; Eerily quiet markets; Citi trading cuts
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The Spread – Bumpy Road – 10/1
Editor's Note: A clarification from Eurex regarding its speed bump is discussed in this episode - the latency protection functionality will be available with the annual T7 system release but IS NOT going live in December as stated in...
Cross-Exchange Manipulation; Credit Suisse XIV Lawsuit Update
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter Lead Stories CFTC Charges Futures Trader with Cross-Exchange Manipulation CFTC The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously...
CFTC and SEC Binary Options Enforcement Actions; SEC sues Tesla
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Part 2 of my interview with Eurex as part of their 20th anniversary celebration was published yesterday.~JJL Today is your last day to save on...
OCC margin breaches spike in Q1; Flash crash blame game
Observations & Insight Traders Grapple With a Big Question: Are Tariffs Priced In? Samuel Potter - Bloomberg After months of simmering tension between the world's two largest economies, the U.S. will impose tariffs on $34 billion...
Binary options are dead; Heat wave slowing markets; LCH’s record first half
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Sunday members of the JLN team head to New York for the summer's first sessions of MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity. On Monday we are at Thomson Reuters in Times Square for one session....
Cboe Plans December 10 Launch of Bitcoin Futures Trading; VIX Options Set New Daily Volume Record on Friday, December 1
Lead Stories Cboe Plans December 10 Launch of Bitcoin Futures Trading Cboe Cboe Global Markets, Inc., one of the world's largest exchange holding companies, today announced that Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE), plans to offer trading in bitcoin futures beginning at 5:00...
Goldman and JPMorgan lead in equity derivatives; Harvest Vol Mangement profile; Spot Trading layoffs
Observations & Insight 30 Under 30 Finance: The Top Young Traders, Dealmakers And Big Money Innovators Antoine Gara, Lauren Gensler, Kristin Stoller and Nathan Vardi - Forbes The Wall Street landscape is becoming younger, digitized and more entrepreneurial....
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Clearinghouse Urges Faster Trade Settlement Amid GameStop Scrutiny
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Wall Street’s favorite volatility index is the latest stock-market bubble, JPMorgan’s quant guru says; Structured Notes Saw Record Demand in a Volatile 2020. Investors Should Mind the Fine Print.
Wall Street’s favorite volatility index is the latest stock-market bubble, JPMorgan’s quant guru says; Structured Notes Saw Record Demand in a Volatile 2020. Investors Should Mind the Fine Print.
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