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VIX Defies Growth Panic Flashed in Bonds; Pound Traders Fret Over Deal Versus No Deal
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter Observations & InsightTrucking Freight and Power: Not as Different as You Think - Paul Cusenza, Nodal ExchangeJohnLothianNews.comMarch 29th marks the launch of Nodal Exchange's trucking...
Options Market Quality Shows Some Cracks in 2018; Oil volatility; SEC examines exchange pricing models
Observations & Insight The Spread - Wild West - 3/8 JohnLothianNews.com A judge's comparison of FX options trading to the Wild West, MIAX's news-making tear, and a little bit of Simon and Garfunkel await viewers of this week's episode of "The Spread." Watch the...
Vivendi tussles with Elliott over equity derivatives; Vol markets ignoring recession risk
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter Observations & InsightFinance v physics: even 'flash boys' can't go faster than lightGillian Tett yesterday - Financial Times (SUBSCRIPTION)Five years ago, the author Michael Lewis...
The VIX just hit its lowest level in 24 years; Q&A with John Davidson, OCC President and Chief Operating Officer; Twice burned, funds wait for clear sign of oil rebalancing
Observations & Insight Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Yesterday was a success for the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity at the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech in Chicago. We had six strong speakers who were appreciated by the audience of...
HFT – Not so flashy anymore; Vicious VIX; JPM Head Quant Warns Of “Catastrophic Losses” For Short Vol Strategies
Observations & Insight An Excerpt of Note Spencer Doar - JLN I am re-reading "Liar's Poker" because...I don't really know why — maybe it's just summer instinct with all these reading lists floating around. Anyway, about a quarter of the way in, there's a notable...
Mexico Said to Take First Steps in Annual Oil Hedging Program; Treasuries-Bund Trade Is About to Get Interesting; No fear – Wall Street’s volatility gauge drops to 23-year low
Lead Stories Mexico Said to Take First Steps in Annual Oil Hedging Program Nacha Cattan and Javier Blas - Bloomberg Mexico said to ask banks for options quotes to fix 2018 prices; Mexico annual sovereign hedge is Wall Street largest oil deal Mexico has taken the first...
Oil volatility migrates from flat prices to spreads; Hedging is about to make a comeback on global crude oil markets; Hedging risk at peak levels through 2016
Lead Stories Oil volatility migrates from flat prices to spreads John Kemp - Reuters "Volatility can be neither created nor destroyed, rather it transforms from one form into another," is a pretty fair summary of how the oil market works (with apologies to...
In Shadow of Le Pen and Brexit, Traders Redraw European Strategy; How Wall Street gauges fear in a time of Trump; Global derivatives industry calls for phase-in of new rule
Observations & Insight Arrival (not with Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker) Notice anything? MIAX Pearl opened up yesterday, bringing the grand total of U.S. options exchanges to 15. When MIAX announced its plans for Pearl, Jim Kharouf wrote a story...
Oil Options Traders Buy Record Bullish Contracts Amid OPEC Moves; Options Back in Vogue as Uncertainty Permeates Global Markets; SEC Approves Consolidated Audit Trail to Detect Market Manipulation
Lead Stories Oil Options Traders Buy Record Bullish Contracts Amid OPEC Moves Javier Blas, John Deane and Brian Wingfield - Bloomberg Oil investors traded a record number of bullish options contracts for benchmark U.S. crude, a signal that the market is positioning...
JLN Options: S&P 500 record runs are small but steady; Why It's So Tricky to Time Volatility Spikes; Oil VIX Is Up 209% and Brazil VIX Is Up 45% in 2014 Y-T-D
Observations & Insight Wrapping it Up Doug Ashburn - JLN Today's newsletter features a snapshot of volatility from several asset classes - equities, oil and gold to name a few - and also includes a bit of a look-back on 2015, as many of our regular resources use...
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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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