Miami International Holdings, the parent company of MIAX, has named former Cboe Global Markets executive Matt McFarland to the position of vice president, derivatives products and business development, at MIAX Futures.
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Tom Ascher – Open Outcry Traders History Project – Part Two
Quantitative Brokers' Executive Chairman Tom Ascher Recalls His Days Trading on Floor In Part Two of the JLN interview with Tom Ascher for the Open Outcry Traders History Project, Ascher talks about getting involved in exchange politics. He joined CBOE’s board and...
Tom Ascher – Open Outcry Traders History Project – Part One
Quantitative Brokers' Executive Chairman Tom Ascher Recalls His Days Trading on Floor Tom Ascher was interviewed by John Lothian News over Zoom for the Open Outcry Traders History Project. Ascher traded at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and after getting into...
Scott Knudsen – From Open Outcry to Electronic Trading to Trading the GOAT
Former IMC Trader and Executive Opens Up About Trading on the Floor, Off The Floor and Building the GOAT Trading System at IMC Scott Knudsen found his way to the world of trading by mistake on the online portal at the career center at the Northwestern University where...
Scott Knudsen – The Path to Electronic Trading Led to a Best Execution Platform For Bitcoin
A Trader and Industry Executive Who Continues to Change with the Times. John Lothian News interviewed Scott Knudsen, the founder of Cove Markets and a longtime former executive with IMC, for The Path to Electronic Trading video series, but we broke off this part of...
Stocks edge back to kick off earnings week as Powell says U.S. economy at ‘inflection point’; Money managers flirting with all-time record CBOT corn long
Stocks edge back to kick off earnings week as Powell says U.S. economy at ‘inflection point’; Money managers flirting with all-time record CBOT corn long
OCC reports highest volumes in its history in Q1 2021; CFTC cracks down on binary options – The Spread
This week on The Spread, the OCC and several major exchanges report trade volumes, the CFTC orders a Brooklyn man to pay $1 million in penalties over a binary options scheme, and more.
GameStop and Bitcoin Renewed a Push to Digitize the Stock Market
First Read $34,126/$300,000 (11.4%) ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff There is a new Van Gogh exhibit in New York billed as Van Gogh - The Immersive Experience. The site of this exhibit is the former trading floor of the NYMEX. The NYMEX trading floor...
Seeing red: tricky times in the markets
$34,126/$300,000 (11.4%) ++++ Lead Stories Seeing red: tricky times in the markets Stefan Wagstyl - Financial Times As investors we like to think we're acting rationally, even though there are mountains of evidence to show that, all too often, we're not. A successful...
Individual Investors Retreat from Markets After Show-Stopping Start to 2021
Observations & Insight ****JJL: The OCC reported that March 2021 total volume was up 34.8 percent from a year ago and that it was the highest total volume month on record for U.S. equity options. March also marked the end of the highest quarter by contract volume...
The Spread: Tiger Billionaire
This week on The Spread, the unregulated crypto exchange Deribit announces a bitcoin volatility index, the CME says over 1 million micro e-mini equity options contracts traded, and more.
MIAX Welcomes Industry Veteran Andy Nybo as the Company’s First Chief Communications Officer; Cboe Receives Regulatory Approval to Launch Periodic Auctions for U.S. Equities Trading
MIAX Welcomes Industry Veteran Andy Nybo as the Company’s First Chief Communications Officer; Cboe Receives Regulatory Approval to Launch Periodic Auctions for U.S. Equities Trading
Cboe Global Markets Agrees to Acquire Chi-X Asia Pacific, Expanding Global Footprint into Australia and Japan
First Read $32,426/$300,000 (10.8%) ++++ Eurex Derivatives Forum: Fixed Income Looks For a Recipe For ESG Success Suzanne Cosgrove -- John Lothian News Sustainable investments are new by most measures. This is especially true in the fixed-income sector, where ESG...
FIA Boca-V: Crypto Goes Mainstream at Boca, Day 2
The second day of FIA Boca-V was reserved mainly for discussions focused on one of the most disruptive pieces of financial technology shaking up the markets today. I’m not talking about smartphone apps that let you make options bets based on nihilistic posts you read on Reddit – I’m talking about cryptocurrency.
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Get ready for ‘reflation and reopening’ stock-market trade to kick into high gear; Hedge fund assets hit record $3.8 trillion in first quarter
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