Currency Markets Warn of Turbulence Ahead; Detached from reality? Why U.S. stocks just hit a new high
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Extinction by Algos Threatens Chicago’s Silenced Trading Pits; Weakening of Foreign Currencies Opens Up Hedging Options
Observations & Insight ****JJL: CME Group is going to launch Micro E-Mini S&P 500 options and Micro E-Mini Nasdaq-100 futures contracts in the fall. I therefore expect next spring the CME Group will launch E-Nano S&P 500 futures in...
Cboe to Reopen Trading Floor June 8 and NYSE Brokers Return; Rowdy Chicago Trading Pits Face Risky Reopen
Observations & Insight Thom Thompson: Later today, CME will transfer open interest in natural gas and crude oil futures and futures options from NFX to CME Clearing using the block trade functions at CME. The CME's May 26 Special Executive...
U.S. Plans to Keep Markets Open, Considering Shorter Hours; Chicago trading firms seek more capital
First Read Hits & Takes By John Lothian and JLN Staff The U.S Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin did his best Game of Thrones John Snow impersonation yesterday (You Know Nothing!) when he suggested shortening trading hours as a way to...
CME Group Announces Bryan Durkin to Step Down as President; Market questions why ICE would make eyes at eBay
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff CME Group President Bryan Durkin is stepping down in May. He will become a special advisor to the company and is being slated for the board of directors, so he is not going far. Here is what CME Group...
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.
The Coming Currency War: Digital Money vs. the Dollar
John Lothian Newsletter: September 23, 2019
Corzine Hedge Fund Firm Granted SEC Registration With Limits
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesJLN StaffA Trading Technologies spokesperson added some information via email to yesterday's story about TT's cryptocurrency platform shutting down. TT is not...
Climate change protesters ‘swarm’ City of London
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesJLN StaffYesterday I interviewed filmmaker and former CME member Jordan Melamed for the JLN Open Outcry Traders History Project. He is a writer and director, known...
Bank of America ‘systematically’ misled clients about stock trades
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Robby Lothian is home from the hospital and doing well. Thank you for the notes and prayers.~JJL My three nephews collaborated on a music video in support of the March For Our Lives movement. Here is Andrew Lothian's "Good Guy...
Less than half of US buy-side expect direct impact from MiFID II; MiFID II’s algo plans come under fire; Ex-Barclays Trader Admits Conspiracy to Rig Currency Prices
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October Surprise Puts U.S. Vote Back Atop Currency Risk List; Shift From Active to Passive Investing Isn’t What It Seems; Challenge Accepted: Chris Isaacson, Bats Global Markets
Observations & Insight Another successful MarketsWiki Education event Spencer Doar - JLN Yesterday, we held our third education event in London, and it went off with nary a hitch. Over the course of three sessions hosted by the London branch of the University of...
Donald Wilson, CEO of DRW Trading Group – Reminiscences (and Prognostications) of a Futures Operator
"My focus was on combining the disciplines of trading and risk management with quantitative research and computer science." Donald Wilson, CEO of DRW Trading Group, gives his story of how he found his way into the financial industry, starting with his realization that...
A Bitcoin for Your Thoughts
Rarely has there been a topic in the offices of John Lothian News that has raised debate, argument and conversation the way that Bitcoin has. What was once thought of as an internet-generated joke is now a topic covered by every mainstream media outlet around the...
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