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The Spread: Remembering Joe Sullivan
This week on The Spread, a binary options fraudster is charged by the CFTC, the father of the VIX publishes a paper on leveraged ETPs, and we take a moment to remember the remarkable life of Joseph Sullivan.
Joe Sullivan’s Influence and Success, Part 2
Wayne Luthringshausen is another person whose career was influenced by the arc of Joseph Sullivan’s option exchange startup crusade to create the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Volatility and the 2020 U.S. Election; Here’s why it’s time to start shorting overextended markets, says one research firm
Volatility and the 2020 U.S. Election; Here’s why it’s time to start shorting overextended markets, says one research firm
David Johnson – Open Outcry Traders History Project
David Johnson was trading OTC stocks and options for Pershing in 1970. He was in the right place at the right time when the CBOT decided to launch an options exchange.
Chris Hehmeyer: Open Outcry Traders History Project
Chris Hehmeyer started out as a runner in the CBOT grain pits, but he really wanted to get into the financial room – which many of the grain traders sneered at. He did it, trading bonds and eventually becoming a phone clerk.
Nasdaq Whale Emerges as Facebook, Amazon See Option Trades; OCC Clears New Annual Exchange-Listed Options Industry Volume Record
Nasdaq Whale Emerges as Facebook, Amazon See Option Trades; OCC Clears New Annual Exchange-Listed Options Industry Volume Record
OneChicago to close on September 18 for trading. Long live OneChicago.
Securities futures exchange OneChicago put out a notice to members on August 14 that it would wind down trading operations and stop them entirely on September 18.
OneChicago and Single Stock Futures Helped Make the John Lothian Newsletter
The John Lothian Newsletter started in 2000 as a viral marketing experiment to help me grow my online brokerage business, but also my promotion of Commodity Trading Advisors.
Tom Rinaudo – MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project
Tom Rinaudo was working at a bank when his mother heard about a job at the Chicago Board of Trade. He had no idea what the Board of Trade was all about, but he said yes and was hired by JK McKerr in a back office job.
Chicago Derivatives Executive Pens Murder Mystery Thriller Set in Chicago’s Markets
Margaret Wiermanski is a longtime derivatives industry back office executive turned author. Silent Partners is a murder and financial crime mystery, and the first of three books she intends to write.
Chess Obermeier – MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project
Chess Obermeier started working for his cousin, Charles Obermeier, at the Cboe, and was able to purchase his first membership by his 21st birthday.
Wild Oil Market Sees Record Contango as Expiry Nears; Hedge funds sense crude at turning point but not fuels
Lead Stories Wild Oil Market Sees Record Contango as Expiry Nears Dan Murtaugh and Alex Longley - Bloomberg Oil in New York has slumped to its weakest structure on record as the current contract nears expiration, adding extra volatility to a...
Buck Haworth – Open Outcry Traders History Project – Part 2
Buck Haworth has been a consultant, a CPA, a back office accountant, an exchange audit department executive, a foreign exchange arbitrage desk manager, an exchange member, a scalper, a spreader, an exchange board member and officer, and a technology entrepreneur. In...
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Regional Resiliency: COVID endangers Chicago’s global status
First Read $9,141/$300,000 (3%) Diane Saucier ++++ Peter Wind, Longtime Industry Colleague and Mentor, Passes Away By John J. Lothian It is with a heavy heart I report that former Cargill Investor Services (CIS) executive Peter Wind has passed away at the age of 70....
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Scary Bitcoin volatility? $750M in BTC options set to expire for Halloween; US and European stocks slide on worsening Covid outbreaks
Scary Bitcoin volatility? $750M in BTC options set to expire for Halloween; US and European stocks slide on worsening Covid outbreaks
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