Lead Stories Letter from Cboe CEO Ed Tilly and President Chris Concannon regarding VIX activity Cboe Over the past 25 years, the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) has become the leading, global indicator of market volatility for the marketplace. It could only achieve this...
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Volatility, Inc.; Carnage, but no volatility crisis; Debt ceiling the real worry; VIX ETPs
Observations & Insight Follow up - Sounds like Seth Golden is.... OK? Spencer Doar - JLN Lots of news today, as one would expect. Yesterday's blog on the short volatility trade was titled Vol-cano Erupts - How's Seth Golden Doing? Funnily enough, Quartz was able...
Off-hour Earnings and Options; Swedish Bank Bosses Escape Options Blow-up Blame; HFT Tales
Lead Stories How Do Traders Respond to Off-Hour Earnings Announcements? Based on the research of Matthew R. Lyle, Christopher Rigsby, Andrew Stephen and Teri Lombardi Yohn - Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University On Wall Street, "business hours"...
Options Market Says Buy the Dip; Issues With Volatility Short-Selling Guru
Lead Stories Options Market to Investors: Buy the Dip; Options traders aren't pricing in a correction during September and October, even as worries abound. Steve Sears - Barron's The options market is sending a message to stock investors: Keep calm and buy the dip....
Shorting the VIX Could Be Terrible; Financials Bulls Tested; LCH plans G10 NDFs, options
Lead Stories Why Shorting the VIX Could Be a Terrible Idea Jared Dillian - Equities.com The New York Times' DealBook had a great piece of journalism a couple of days ago about short VIX carry monkeys. Well, that is what I call them. The article features a former...
Nasdaq Sues MIAX Parent Co.; VIX ETP Liquidation Scenario?; ETF volatility effects
Observations & Insight August 2017 Options Exchange Marketshare via OCC ++++++ OCC Cleared Contract Volume Up 19 Percent in August OCC OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that total cleared contract volume in August...
VIX pioneer Dan Galai interview; Betting on risk is risky; FX Options Update
Lead Stories A pioneer of the VIX says the market is looking at volatility all wrong; VIX pioneer Dan Galai interview Joe Ciolli - Business Insider Stock market volatility — or the lack thereof — has been a hot-button topic on Wall Street of late. jlne.ws/2eM2u3f The...
More VIX ETP bets on turbulence; Bear market signals multiplying; Digital currencies worth it?
Lead Stories Investors raise bets that market turbulence will ease; Two popular exchange traded funds nearly double in size this month Robin Wigglesworth and Joe Rennison in New York - Financial Times Investors have ratcheted up bets that the stock market's recent...
JLN Options: All about the crowd in VIX ETPs
Observations & Insight Hurricane to Cost Tens of Billions, but a Quick Recovery Is Expected Conor Dougherty and Nelson D. Schwartz - NY Times The brutal storm pummeling the Houston area is likely to rank as one of the nation's costliest natural disasters, with...
How To Launch A Successful [Option] ETF; Best Execution -Do You Get It?; Retail investors poised for volatility
Observations & Insight Goodbye to the Convergex Briefing Spencer Doar - JLN The Convergex Morning Market Briefing, penned by Convergex Chief Strategist Nick Colas with the assistance of Research Associate Jessica Rabe, abruptly ended last night. It covered a bit...
Two Market Giants Tried to Create a $75 Billion Mega-Exchange; The Mystery of the Stubbornly-Low Volatility Index Is Deepening; Ex-Credit Suisse Trader Lures $1.6 Billion of Client Cash
Lead Stories Two Market Giants Tried to Create a $75 Billion Mega-Exchange Matthew Leising - Bloomberg CME, ICE discussed a merger after Deutsche Boerse-LSE's deal; They're no longer negotiating, unclear why talks broke down The world's biggest exchanges are still...
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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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