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Gentlemen, Start Your Engines
...DRC Computer Corp. The Exegy ticker plant is used for basket calculations and index arbitrage, and can be utilized for options trading. Exegy execs say they already have a handful...
What’s the Flux?
...a profound and lasting impact on the U.S. equity and index options businesses. Leveraged accounts and active individuals will see a significant improvement in capital efficiency in trading options. This...
Institutions Drive Options Volume Skyward
...index, are employed much more aggressively and dynamically by hedge funds or open and closed funds, says the OIC’s Gocke. “Between $25 and $30 billion worth of new open- and...
Reinventing the Status Quo
...side.He moved to State Street Global Advisors, where he spent three years running $6 billion in an international index fund. He welcomed the new experience of having his performance measured...
NYSE Recasts Definition Of Program Trades
...least $1 million.Under the new regime, portfolio volume-weighted-average-price trades and pairs trading will no longer automatically qualify as programs. Index arbitrage will still constitute program trading.Since the beginning of this...
NYSE Arca Comes Up a Winner in Penny Trading
...only the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the International Securities Exchange, which dominate options trading. Overall, NYSE Arca ranks fourth, with 11 percent of total equity and index contract volume.Of...
Looking Beyond Pennies
...customer’s portfolio includes OTC derivatives, the latest phase of the portfolio-margining pilot widely expands the eligible asset classes to include equities, narrow-based index options, narrow-based index futures, and OTC derivatives....
SEC’s Sirri Offers Trading Industry Self-Help
...for much of the day. When Dow Jones switched to a back-up computer system at 2:59 p.m., the index caught up and dropped 200 points within a few seconds.At around...
Risky Business
...typically brokerage firms, ranging from bulge bracket shops like Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch to niche brokers; custodian banks such as State Street and Mellon; and big index players like...
The Responsible Trader
...overseeing trading, Cancelmo runs the firm’s Balance Fund-a mixture of options, index and fixed-income strategies that has delivered an average return of 7.68 percent over the last five years. “I’ve...
