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Options Discovery Episode 28: Understanding Market Movements to Make Options Trades; Matt Amberson, Principal and Founder of ORATS, Discusses This and More With JLN's Asma Awass.
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In this episode of Options Discovery, Asma Awass discusses the different stages of a market cycle. This episode includes a breakdown of the four different stages of a market cycle, what tools traders can use to analyze the markets, and some potential options strategies! Asma then sits down with Matt Amberson, the founder of Options Research and Technology Services, and he shares more insight on different market movements. You can check out ORATS here: https://orats.com/
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| | | | | | Lead Stories | | | Crypto Options Trading Volume Hits Record as ETF Deadline Nears
David Pan - Bloomberg
This year's massive rebound in cryptocurrencies is firing up the digital-asset derivatives market. Crypto options and futures are seeing a surge in demand from traditional institutional investors making bets ahead of the deadline for US regulators to approve or reject exchange-traded funds that invest directly in Bitcoin. Trading volume for Bitcoin options has reached an all-time-high, according to data compiled by The Block. Deribit, the largest crypto-options exchange, is poised for its biggest-ever quarterly expiry on Friday.
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CBOE Digital Sees Bitcoin Spot ETFs Drawing New Institutional Investors
Yueqi Yang - Bloomberg
A host of new institutional investors including pension funds and registered investment adviser-based vehicles will flock to Bitcoin assets if US regulators approve the first-ever spot exchange-traded fund for the cryptocurrency, according to CBOE Digital's president.
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CBOE Digital President on Spot Bitcoin ETF, Derivatives
Bloomberg Crypto Show (Video)
CBOE Digital President, John Palmer, discusses the spot Bitcoin ETF and what it would mean for CBOE Digital and how investors would use derivative contracts. He speaks with Sonali Basak and Kailey Leinz on "Bloomberg Crypto."
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Why Short Sellers Are Targeting Struggling EV Companies
Wall Street Journal (Video)
Electric vehicle manufacturers like Lucid, Lordstown Motors and Faraday Future were big winners of the stock boom two years ago. Now all three companies' shares have fallen dramatically. WSJ's Dion Rabouin and George Downs discuss why.
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Korea's Kospi Stock Index Heads for 19-Month High Amid Short-Selling Ban, Foreign Buying
Youkyung Lee and Ishika Mookerjee - Bloomberg
South Korea's stock benchmark reached its highest closing level since June 2022 amid foreign investor demand for chipmakers, as the nation kept a short-selling ban in place. The Kospi index climbed 0.6% on Tuesday. Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. have been the biggest drivers of the measure's recent gains, with the two semiconductor stocks drawing more than $3 billion in combined net inflows from overseas funds in the last quarter of 2023, boosted by optimism around artificial intelligence and improving chip demand.
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China 'national team' buying of ETFs expands to new institutions; New players and more focused purchases suggest moves to calm volatility and boost domestic confidence
Emma Boyde - Financial Times
The past 12 months have been punishing for foreign exchange traded fund investors with exposure to China, but fresh signs of "national team" involvement might give risk-averse market participants pause for thought.
Z-Ben Advisors, a specialist research consultancy based in Shanghai, noted in a report released last month that institutional investors were continuing to increase their equity holdings via ETFs and that this activity was extending beyond the historical core China national team players.
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| | | | | | Exchanges | | | 2023 Recap - Cboe Index Charts on Performance, Skew and Premiums; Four Cboe Strategy Indices Rose More Than 38% in 2023
Matthew Moran - Cboe Global Markets
One of the most frequent questions I receive from customers is - what is the year-to-date performance of a specific Cboe index? While Cboe offers many dozens of strategy indices, and Cboe's BXMD(SM) Index rose 20%, and Cboe's PUT(SM) index rose 14% in 2023, the three Cboe strategy indices shown below all rose more than 38% in 2023.
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Cboe's FX Volume Drops for Second Consecutive Month
Abdelaziz Fathi - FinanceFeeds
Cboe's institutional spot FX platform has published its trading volume for the month ending December 2023, which took a step back after a strong rebound in November.
Cboe FX disclosed a total trading volume of $890 billion, down 12 percent on a month-over-month basis from $1.0 trillion in November?. However, this figure was higher by 15.1 percent year-over-year when weighed against $773 billion in December 2022.
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2023: A year of firsts for the Singapore stock market
Tan Boon Gin, CEO - Singapore Exchange Regulation
When I was asked to contribute a commentary to mark the year-end, it was suggested to me that the topic should perhaps be along the lines of "A year of wins for shareholders". However, as I looked through my notes, speeches, the Regulator's Columns and other content Singapore Exchange Regulation (SGX RegCo) has published, it is clear to me that 2023 might be better described as a year of firsts.
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| | | | | | Strategy | | | Cherry Picks: Navigating 2024's Most Volatile Sectors and Futures Markets
Michael "Dr. Data" Rechenthin - tastylive
Opportunity follows volatility. Here is whats in store for sectors in 2024.
Below we have a list of various sector exchange-traded funds (ETFs), sorted by their implied volatility (IV) values. Implied volatility is a metric used in the options market to gauge the market's expectation of the volatility of a security's price.
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| | | | | | Miscellaneous | | | Here's (Almost) Everything Wall Street Expects in 2024
Sam Potter - Bloomberg
If the consensus on Wall Street is often wrong â and evidence from 2023 does little to dispel that notion â then in the year ahead investors are facing either the mother of all rallies or a selloff for the ages.
That's because most investment outlooks from major banks, advisers and asset managers envisage the same middle-of-the-road scenario in 2024: They see interest rates finally starting to bite, a benign economic slowdown, and a central bank pivot to easier policies setting the stage for a late-year rebound. Stocks and bonds â which rallied strongly in the final weeks of 2023 â are mostly seen posting positive yet underwhelming gains.
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