The Spread: Pandemic Pandemonium

Suzanne Cosgrove

Suzanne Cosgrove

Editor

This week on The Spread – the CME, the OCC, and MIAX break their own records, while coronavirus fears cause global equity markets to crash and options trading and clearing volumes to spike.

Produced by Mike Forrester.

Sources

Record 1 Billion Options Traded at CME Group in 2019 https://jlne.ws/2Tzb1Kj

OCC Contract Volume – February 2020http://jlne.ws/2rjYtvJ

The S&P 500 suffers its quickest correction since the Great Depressionhttps://jlne.ws/38fiXWz

Volatility index hits highest level since 2015https://jlne.ws/39jg3Bk

It Took Just Two Days to Zap More Than $1 Trillion From Stockshttps://jlne.ws/2TeNL5C

China Stock Option’s 2,800% Surge Shows Rush for Hedgeshttps://jlne.ws/39kRLXG

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The Spread – July 23, 2021

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Options traders torn between higher Inflation and steady Fed policy; June market share up at MIAX; John Lothian talks about a World of Opportunity; SEC charges binary options shop with fraud; Moscow Exchange set to offer quarterly options on U.S. stock index futures; and the Options Institute’s Kevin Davitt talks about implied volatility in the “Term of the Week.”

The Spread – July 9, 2021

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The Spread – July 2, 2021

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