First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Today we have published the Open Outcry Traders History Project video of James Gordon of Straits Financial LLC. Gordon spent eight years on the Cboe trading floor with Timber Hill. His is the first video...
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New York Stock Exchange to Reopen Trading Floor; Pandemic stirs Wall Street’s social conscience
First Read Hits & Takes By John Lothian & JLN Staff Thank you to Don Wilson, Jerry Hanweck and Lee Betsill for participating in the Bachelier Options Model virtual panel yesterday. It was quick and went well for the most part, though I...
Funding Exhausted for $350 Billion Small-Business Paycheck Protection Program; China Records First Ever Contraction in Quarterly GDP on Coronavirus
First Read Hits & Takes By John Lothian & JLN Staff The John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. application for the CARES Act Payroll Protection Plan has stalled due to the fund being exhausted before my loan/grant could be closed. I...
The CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast Episode 10: Blowing off Steem
In their last recorded episode before JLN’s staff switched to work-from-home mode, Matt and Thom sat down to discuss how the epidemic is affecting the crypto markets, India’s lift on cryptocurrency trading, the Steemit/TRON controversy, and more.
CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast Episode 9: Privacy Coins vs. Private Money (featuring Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at CoinShares)
Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at CoinShares, is passionate about cryptocurrency, financial technology, and civil rights – and she wants to share her knowledge as well as her enthusiasm with the world. In 2019, she testified before the House Financial Services Committee for a hearing on Facebook’s proposed digital currency project, Libra. Demirors has appeared on Bloomberg, CNBC, CoinDesk, and the MIT Technology Review – now, Demirors joins us to discuss privacy, mining, and regulation – and of course, Facebook’s Libra.
The CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast Episode 8: Krakpots
Matt and Thom take to the JLN studio once again to discuss 2020’s biggest stories in crypto (so far).
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00:35 Bitcoin options are not, in fact, hot right now
02:58 Kraken CEO says cost of regulatory requests rising for the exchange
08:28 Japan puts limits on leverage for regulated cryptocurrency exchanges
09:05 Bitmain’s “questionable” need for layoffs
11:48 Bitwise Bitcoin ETF takes a knee
15:02 Libra creates a new committee
17:35 “Crypto Dad” gets two new gigs
SEC Decision on 4 p.m. Closing Trades Deals Blow to NYSE, Nasdaq; The new kings of the bond market
First Read Cboe Wraps Up Tech Migration, Expands in Products and in Europe Suzanne Cosgrove - John Lothian News With its multi year technology migration finally wrapped up, Cboe Global Markets is returning its focus in 2020 to the expansion of...
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...
Regulators Seek to Loosen U.S. Exchanges’ Control Over Stock Data; Swiss Trader Spills Secrets of Global Insider-Trading Network
First Read Nothing Learned from the CFTC Bullying a Win in the Thakkar Case CFTC Commissioner Leadership Needed to End This Regulation by Litigation Case By John J. Lothian If Jitesh Thakkar loses his case brought by the Enforcement Division of...
CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast Episode 7: Buy the Dip! Featuring: Thom Thompson, editor at JLN
JLN Editor Thom Thompson has decades of experience working in the financial markets in both the U.S. and Europe. These days, he uses his expertise to explain the cryptocurrency markets, especially the burgeoning cryptocurrency derivatives to JLN’s readers. In this episode of the CMW Podcast, Thom joins Matt in the studio to discuss the most notable moments in the cryptocurrency markets in 2019.
UK watchdog FCA snarls at EU criticism over derivatives; SEC opens debate on finding alternatives to IPOs
See also: Russia plans exchange for US-sanctioned companies to raise debt, Boris Johnson intensifies efforts to secure Brexit deal majority, and more.
SEC Charges 18 Traders in $31 Million Stock Manipulation Scheme; ICE closes acquisition of BAML fixed income volatility indices
See also: Inside Facebook’s Botched Attempt to Start a New Cryptocurrency, Why hedge fund managers are happy to let the machines take over, and more.
Fed ‘repo’ plan could face fund manager resistance; London Metal Exchange to increase fees by 8 per cent in 2020
See also: Neil Woodford’s empire implodes as he quits last two funds, Global Markets Waking Up to Consequences of Hong Kong Protests, and more.
Distrust for Facebook unites Republicans and Democrats against Libra
In 2019, congressional Republicans and Democrats have at least one thing they all seem to agree upon...none of them trust Facebook. David Marcus, co-creator of Libra and head of Libra and Calibra, testified before Congress Wednesday about the...
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