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JPMorgan Says Big Options Bets Swing Stocks in Thin Markets; Citadel Securities’ David Silber Says Stop Blaming Options
JPMorgan Says Big Options Bets Swing Stocks in Thin Markets; Citadel Securities’ David Silber Says Stop Blaming Options
SGX and Nasdaq seal pact to streamline secondary offerings; ICE ETF Hub launches new basket negotiation technology
SGX and Nasdaq seal pact to streamline secondary offerings; ICE ETF Hub launches new basket negotiation technology
US regulator fines Citadel Securities over trading breach; New York Sees Push to Tax Stock Trades With Revenue in Free Fall
US regulator fines Citadel Securities over trading breach; New York Sees Push to Tax Stock Trades With Revenue in Free Fall
Manager Who Timed March Bottom Cuts Risk With ‘Alarm’ Sounding; Stocks jittery as record U.S. virus count curbs risk appetite
Manager Who Timed March Bottom Cuts Risk With ‘Alarm’ Sounding; Stocks jittery as record U.S. virus count curbs risk appetite
How zero-fee trading helped Citadel cash in on retail trading boom; London Stock Exchange chief appointed CEO of FCA
How zero-fee trading helped Citadel cash in on retail trading boom; London Stock Exchange chief appointed CEO of FCA
Could shutting exchanges stop the markets rot? SEC chief says ‘markets should continue to function’ but global staffing has been hit by virus
First Read ++++ Ceres Hit Hard By Restaurant Ban Thom Thompson - JLN The popular restaurant in the Chicago Board of Trade's Jackson Street Lobby closed Monday afternoon in response to the Illinois governor's restrictions on restaurants and bars...
Virus Fears Propel VIX to Biggest Daily Surge Since Volmageddon; Virus Risk No Longer Just a Blip on the Horizon
Lead Stories Virus Fears Propel VIX to Biggest Daily Surge Since Volmageddon Joanna Ossinger - Bloomberg The Cboe Volatility Index surged to its highest in more than a year Monday as renewed fears about the coronavirus outbreak battered risk...
Hedge Funds Not Led by White Men Outperform Peers Nearly 2 to 1; China Seeks to Stop Virus Scare From Becoming Political Crisis
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Paul Tudor Jones told CNBC that this 'crazy' stock market run reminds him a lot of 'early' '99~JJL One of the political issues of the day is voter registration. People across the U.S. are being knocked...
The index providers are quietly building up enormous powers; The Dog That Didn’t Bark: What Soybean Prices Say About Trade Deal
First ReadHits & TakesBy JLN StaffToday is the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday in the U.S. and JLN will not be publishing its Options Newsletter today. In fact, after JLN goes out, the team has the rest of the day off, or you could say after JLN...
Spot Trading Closes; EU Fintech Regulatory Roadmap; EU probes UK derivatives tax treatment
First Read Renato Mariotti for Illinois Attorney General; A Former Prosecutor and Current JLN Reader Is The Best Choice For Illinois AG John Lothian - JLN Democratic Attorney General candidate Renato Mariotti stopped by the John Lothian News offices in the Chicago...
Hawaii, Harvard gambled on calm; Wall Street not quitting vol; More VIX rigging; HFT source code developments
Lead Stories Harvard, Hawaii Gambled on Market Calm—Then Everything Changed Gregory Zuckerman, Gunjan Banerji and Heather Gillers - WSJ A decade of low bond yields pushed some of the most stability-minded investors to dabble in risky investments that depended on...
A Kansas Investment Firm Spurring Change on Wall Street; Academics Clash Over VIX Bragging Rights; In the New Bond Market, Bigger Is Better
First Read Are You Registered? If you haven't registered for our Trading Chicago event, a joint effort between John Lothian News and FOW, now is the time. The one-day event is set for June 28th at the Swissotel in Chicago. You can register HERE and see the agenda for...
OCC Cleared Contract Volume Up 19 Percent in May; VIX Index Closes Below 10 Again, as Professor Called VIX Level the Biggest Financial Mystery; Citadel Securities Hires Barclays’s Electronic Equities Chief
Observations & Insight May 2017 Options Exchange Marketshare via OCC Two notable changes: -NYSE down from 17.04% total options marketshare in May 2016 to 12.6% in May 2017. -CBOE up from 36.58% total options marketshare in May 2016 to 44.13% in May 2017 (vast...
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How Many Americans Will Ayn Rand Kill? Liberty doesn’t mean freedom to infect other people; EU explores tougher curbs on City hedge fund managers
First Read $9,041/$300,000 (3%) How we think and what we think about Peak6 is about to change By John J. Lothian Peak6 was founded as a proprietary trading firm in Chicago by Matthew N. Hulsizer and Jennifer Just. We might think of Peak6 as the firm with the...
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If Trump’s Election Prospects Were an Option, It Would Be Out-of-the-Money; Bitcoin’s market run-up sends options to all-time high for open interest
If Trump’s Election Prospects Were an Option, It Would Be Out-of-the-Money; Bitcoin’s market run-up sends options to all-time high for open interest
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