In this video from the Options Exchange Leader Series, NYSE Head of Options Ivan Brown talks about a successful 2018, NYSE's new West Coast facilities, and the roll out of NYSE Pillar, the exchange’s new trading platform. Produced by Mike...
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Options Market Structure Issues; Timely VIX Hedging; No SPY Alternative for Traders
Observations & Insight Turn Yourself In, It'll Be Easier: Bank Cooperation On Spoofing Charges Saves Millions Jim Kharouf - JLN Over the past several months, there has been a fair amount of talk about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's push on the...
Innovation Is the Only Cure for Fragmentation; Deutsche Börse Reveals Three ‘Pillars’ of Its Pervasive Blockchain Integration; Index Funds Still Beat ‘Active’ Portfolio Management
First Read Cold as ICE: Sprecher asks UK, How much do you love me? In the battle for financial markets in Europe, exchanges would like some more communication about why they should stay in the UK. By Jim Kharouf To hear one exchange leader tell it, UK markets could...
Bitcoin options exchange raises $11.4 million in funding; Bill Brodsky – A Towering Figure in Options; Commodity Traders Have a Really Big Problem
Observations & Insight It's all in the follow through Jim Kharouf, JLN This week, we are continuing our rollout of video interviews from the Options Industry Conference. Today we feature Gina McFadden, the first woman to receive the esteemed Joseph W. Sullivan...
Options Market Structure – Fragmented Reality; Citigroup launches “credit VIX”; Mirror, Mirror, Which Asset Class Is the Sleepiest of Them All?
Observations & Insight Editor's Note: In yesterday's options exchange recap, we incorrectly noted that "NYSE Options ... reduced the speed of execution by 50 percent," when in fact NYSE reduced latency by 50 percent (or, when phrased another way, increased the...
Steve Woodyatt, Object Trading – Blurring the buy and sell sides
Over the last 10 years the buy and sell sides have undergone drastic shifts due to two main factors: unbundling and fragmentation. In this talk from MarketsWiki Education’s London event, Steve Woodyatt, CEO of Object Trading, discusses those two phenomena. Woodyatt...
John Lothian Newsletter: US interest rate swaps trading rules ‘fragment’ global market; CME, Morningstar CEOs mull financial technology hub; Is Bitcoin Breaking Up?
First Read From the Top: By John J. Lothian Today the markets are closed in the U.S. in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. This day is in honor of the birthday of Dr. King and his life of non-violent protest and for standing up for people who faced...
Henry Schwartz – Trade Alert
Henry Schwartz is the President and Founder of Trade Alert, a real-time option flow analytics firm that serves Wall Street sell-side derivative desks, floor brokers, market makers, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms. He previously worked at Banc of America...
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First Read $29,826/$300,000 (9.9%) Charles Bohm ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The CME set new record volumes in the Ultra 10-Year Note and 30-Year Bond futures on February 23. Ultra 10-Year Note futures reached a record volume of 1.7 million...
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GameStop shares on track to triple for week as options trading spikes; GameStop short-sellers have lost $1.9 billion in just 2 days amid the stock’s latest spike
GameStop shares on track to triple for week as options trading spikes; GameStop short-sellers have lost $1.9 billion in just 2 days amid the stock’s latest spike
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