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BATS January Equities Market Share Flat, But Options Rise

BATS Global Markets reported its U.S. equities matched market share totaled 11.1 percent in January, virtually unchanged from 11.2 percent in December, but up from 10.4 percent a year ago. The exchange operator saw an average daily matched volume of 766.6 million shares.

OptionsXpress Benefits from Complex Orders

The options industry recorded double digit growth last year, and at least one broker credited the use of sophisticated strategies for its good fortune.

STAC Coverage: Options Industry Looks to Long-Onlys for Future

Options industry officials are looking to traditional money managers for growth. According to one veteran options executive, growth in the use of options by retail investors is flagging, so the industry is looking upstream for order flow.

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CBOE Thrives on Volatility

Chicago Board Options Exchange chairman and chief executive officer Bill Brodsky and president and chief operating officer Ed Tilly broke bread with the New York City press corps in January in order to update the scribes on the exchange operator's initiatives. Traders Magazine presents a slice of the Q&A session.

BuyWrite Bounceback

After three years of near dormancy, mutual funds using covered calls showed signs of life last year. That's despite evidence of investor dissatisfaction with fund companies.

Bit Players

High-frequency trading may have transformed the country's stock exchanges into ultra-fast, high-volume marketplaces, but it has had little impact on U.S. options exchanges. Five years into the penny tick/maker-taker revolution, high-frequency traders are bit players at best in options.

Pensions Eye Buy-Writes

With crisis comes opportunity. That seems to be the message for the options industry as a group of public pension plans moves closer to incorporating options into their portfolios, most for the first time, in an attempt to squeeze out some of the volatility in their stock portfolios.

Short and Sweet

Volume is up for the ninth straight year in the options industry, but there's a big difference this year. Of the 21.6 percent increase in total year-over-year volume through October, over a third of the growth is coming from contracts that expire weekly. That makes weeklies one of the most successful product launches in the industry's history.

Pensions Eye Buy-Writes

Pensions Eye Buy-Writes

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• BATS January Equities Market Share Flat, But Options Rise
• OptionsXpress Benefits from Complex Orders
• STAC Coverage: Options Industry Looks to Long-Onlys for Future
• Buy-Write Strategy Gets Another Look
• A Q&A With CBOE's CEO Brodsky and COO Tilly
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