The Post-Covid Trading Floor Is Here — With Buffet Lunches, No Masks; Turns Out Good Covid Management Is Good Politics and Economics
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Falling VIX Can Unlock Higher Levels for S&P 500, Evercore Says; Dow Jones Industrial Average Drops as VIX Remains Too High
Falling VIX Can Unlock Higher Levels for S&P 500, Evercore Says; Dow Jones Industrial Average Drops as VIX Remains Too High
The Spread: Reopened for Business
This week on The Spread, Cboe reopens its doors to resume hybrid trading, FIA’s Walt Lukken invites you to a virtual IDX, and more.
Extinction by Algos Threatens Chicago’s Silenced Trading Pits; Wall Street Has Billions to Lose in China From Mounting Tension
First ReadHits & TakesBy John J. LothianTwo friends of JLN have partnered together and yesterday announced a new exchange operator to mainstream digital asset investing and trading. CrossTower Co-founders CEO Kapil Rathi and President Kristin Boggiano,...
NYSE Trading Floor Reopens as Lockdowns Loosen Further; Market ‘distress’ over virus sparked emergency Wall St measures
First Read Hits & Takes By John Lothian & JLN Staff On Friday, John Lothian News published a video about a new book from a first time author and longtime industry executive, Margaret Wiermanski. She has penned a murder mystery and...
Expect the Unexpected
In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity event in Chicago, ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago CFO Mike Nowak talks about rolling with the punches – from changing careers due to 9/11 to learning about derivatives on the fly on the trading floor.
New York’s New West Coast Digs
New trading floor just a part of NYSE's new San Francisco facility NYSE is set to have new digs in San Francisco when its NYSE West facility opens Monday, March 11. Obviously, New York is the area most thought of when it comes to all things...
The Options Industry Leader Series 2018 – BOX’s Ed Boyle
In this video from the 36th annual Options Industry Conference (OIC) in Amelia Island, Fla., Ed Boyle, CEO of BOX, talks about constraints placed on the market making community, forward-starting daily options and options market...
NYSE MKT stock exchange to end floor trading -regulatory filing; Rising Currency Volatility Keeps Stock-Watchers on Edge; Here’s how much ETFs are dominating on the trading floor
Observations & Insight The tasty nation adds an entree, tastyworks: Tom Sosnoff and the tastytrade crew are "going to murder passive investing" Spencer Doar - JLN Editor's note: This story contains language that some readers might find offensive. Also, the subject...
John Lothian Profiles: Mike Forrester reflects on 50 years of trading at the CBOT
Toledo, Ohio-born Mike Forrester has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade for more than 50 years. He started out at the CBOT as a runner for the old Uhlman Grain Company in 1963 at age 22. He got interested in the markets and...
Katie Burgoon, Trading Technologies – Gone But Not Forgotten: How The Floor Trader Mentality Can Prepare Everyone For Success
"You would never have met a floor trader who did not live and breathe the markets every day. They literally could not wait for the alarm clock to go off every morning." Though the open outcry system of order execution has been relegated to the history books, the...
George Martin, Cheevers & Co. – Keeping The Human Element
"The human element is critical. There's so much power in a handshake or a face-to-face meeting." George Martin, trade support specialist at Cheevers & Co., discusses the importance of human interaction in the financial industry. Despite the fact that technology...
John Lothian Newsletter: Commodity Pits Bid Goodbye to Human Traders as CME Closes Floor; U.S. Bank to pay $18 million to end CFTC’s Peregrine case; Howard Lutnick’s BGC Extends Offer for Clearinghouse GFI
First Read A Reflection on a Life, Its Influences and the Trading Floor John Lothian, John Lothian News I learned recently a life-long friend was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. My friend and former Wisconsin neighbor is older than me. In fact, at one time he was my...
Ed Tilly, CEO of CBOE – Embrace Change
"We were challenging people's livelihoods..." Reaching our goals in life does not always involve a linear path. Ed Tilly, CEO of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, discusses the long and winding road he followed in his career and key experiences that helped him get...
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Crop Trading Giants Start Blockchain Platform With Brazil Deals
First Read $29,776/$300,000 (9.9%) ++++ ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Here is the LINK for the DTCC press release about the proposal to shorten the U.S. settlement cycle to T+1 within two years. Former CFTC Chairman J Christopher Giancarlo has an...
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A group of Wall Street Bets traders is laying new plans for a ‘gamma squeeze’ on GameStop stock; JPMorgan’s Kolanovic Says ‘VIX Bubble’ May Spark Stock Rally
A group of Wall Street Bets traders is laying new plans for a ‘gamma squeeze’ on GameStop stock; JPMorgan’s Kolanovic Says ‘VIX Bubble’ May Spark Stock Rally
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