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Twitter’s New Followers — CBOE and Social Market Analytics Team Up for New Sentiment Index Based on Social Media Data
Can you trade off of Twitter? The Chicago Board Options Exchange and its partner Social Market Analytics (SMA) believe so. The two firms are partnering on a suite of sentiment-based indexes that use tweet data to generate alpha. The first of the suite, the CBOE-SMA...
John Lothian News Special Report: Global Regulation on Record-Keeping and Trade Reconstruction is Being Widely Ignored in Relation to Social Media
by Paul Christensen, CEO, Green Key Technologies Last week one of GreenKey's advisory board members, Jill Sommers, a former CTFC Commissioner, wrote a blog about record-keeping requirements. Her punchline: “The data produced from daily communications continues to...
A Fortune Built on the Back of Prayers
Last week I announced on Facebook to my family and friends that I was headed to surgery again on my back. More about that later, but the response I received on Facebook made me realize why Mark Zuckerberg has become the fourth richest man in the world. My list of...
STAC Tackles Volatility, Social Media and Blockchain
The Security Traders Association of Chicago holds its Midwinter Meeting this week at the Hilton, bringing in industry participants from a variety of warmer climes than Chicago. Day one covered such seemingly disparate issues as volatility and volatility products,...
Guest Commentary: SEC Socializes Public Disclosure
Guest Commentary by Eric Hazard and Jade Faugno of Intermarket Communications. Intermarket Communications is a specialist in strategic communications, public relations and marketing consulting to financial services providers. Intermarket’s client base includes asset...
John Lothian Newsletter: Chi-X Poaches Getco’s Fildes as Australian CEO; Swaps Among Bank Affiliates Exempt Under CFTC Clearing Rule; S.E.C. Sets Rules for Disclosures Using Social Media
Chi-X Australia gets a new CEO from GETCO. Banks are covered under new Dodd-Frank swap market rules, unless they happen to be trading between their own affiliate companies. Spinoffs, anyone? The SEC announces guidelines and an affirmation that under certain...
Nils-Robert Persson Talks About Cinnober and the Growth of Real-time Risk Management
There are some firms who are ahead of the curve and profit from it. Cinnober Financial Technology, the Swedish-based provider of electronic trading platforms was certainly one of them when it began pushing real-time risk management technology for trading and clearing...
Allan Schoenberg on the Evolution of CME Group’s Social Media Strategy
Allan Schoenberg, Executive Director of Corporate Communications at CME Group, highlights new social media initiatives and describes how their social media strategy has evolved since they first created a Facebook page five years ago. In this conversation with JLN...
Metrixx Founder Jim Marzano on the Intersection of Bond Analytics and Social Media
Jim Marzano was the first person to trade the Chicago Board of Trade’s 30-year bond contract in 1977. Today, he’s looking to create another first as the founder and CEO of Metrixx -- a bond, fx and commodities analytics company that also integrates social media for...
Mary McHenry of the National Futures Association Discusses the NFA’s CTA Marketing Policies
Mary McHenry is senior manager of compliance at the National Futures Association (NFA). Among the NFA’s oversight responsibilities is the monitoring of the marketing and promotional activities by commodity trading advisors (CTAs). John Lothian News Editor-in-Chief...
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How Many Americans Will Ayn Rand Kill? Liberty doesn’t mean freedom to infect other people; EU explores tougher curbs on City hedge fund managers
First Read $9,041/$300,000 (3%) How we think and what we think about Peak6 is about to change By John J. Lothian Peak6 was founded as a proprietary trading firm in Chicago by Matthew N. Hulsizer and Jennifer Just. We might think of Peak6 as the firm with the...
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