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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
DASH Taking Order Routing to Next Level, Exec Says
How can order routing be improved? Milito explains fintech’s expansive role.
Stocks Have Rarely Been This Quiet in the Past 50 Years; Fed’s Kaplan Warns Central Bank Actions Are Driving Up Risk Taking
Lead Stories Stocks Have Rarely Been This Quiet in the Past 50 Years Amrith Ramkumar - WSJ The S&P 500 is in one of its longest streaks without a 1% daily move in the past five decades, highlighting how the latest leg of the stock-market...
Carefree investors should heed lessons from 2018 shake-out; Euro Volatility Hits Record Low in Defiance of Market Theory
Lead Stories Carefree investors should heed lessons from 2018 shake-out Robin Wigglesworth - Financial Times Financial markets have suffered a few frights already this year, but despite the shocks delivered by US president Donald Trump and...
Options Liquidity Matrix – Record Year; Risky Assets Move in Tandem; Dash Hires Scott Patrick
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter Lead Stories2018 Record Year for US Options IndustryTabb Options Liquidity MatrixThis past year marks the first year on record that the US options industry topped 5 billion contracts traded. A...
Back to the (Broker) Dealer’s Table
It was back at the turn of the century that Tony Saliba founded LiquidPoint, the broker-dealer known for its options execution management technology that at one point executed a fifth of daily options volumes. LiquidPoint would...
Takeaways From Recent Options Volume Surge; Update on Short Vol Poster Child; VIX seen as incomplete measure
Observations & Insight An Array of Recommended Tangents for International Women's Day Spencer Doar - JLN The "Fearless Girl" statue on Wall Street turned one year old today. Let's dedicate today's newsletter to the embodiment of her ideals, shall we? To kick it...
Hungry for more: Dash Financial Sees Opportunity In A New Broker Landscape
For some firms today, being young has its advantages. Dash Financial might just be one of those young and agile companies that can take advantage of the currents that are pushing and pulling the industry. Later this quarter Dash is expected to complete its acquisition...
Dash and LiquidPoint to Merge to Create Dash Financial Technologies; Volatility To Return In A Big Way This Year; 7 New Year’s Resolutions for the Options Investor
Observations & Insight OCC 2016 Cleared Contract Volume Fifth Highest Ever OCC OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced 2016 total cleared contract volume reached 4,167,747,777 contracts, a one percent decrease from the...
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First Read $25,451/$300,000 (8.5%) Ricardo Manrique and Philip Slocum ++++ ++++ Elevated Risk Levels, Volatility Seen Continuing as 2021 Debuts Suzanne Cosgrove and Matt Raebel - John Lothian News The pandemic of 2020 and its associated economic fallout pushed the...
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Why everyone is now an options trader; Strategists See Growing Bets on Emerging-Markets Via ETF Options
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