| December 11, 2020 | | | | | Matt Raebel
Editor
John Lothian News | |
|
| | | | Observations & Insight | | |
$18,761/$300,000 (6.3%)
Anthony McCormick, Rob Moore and Jennifer Nayar
++++
We had three new donations to the JLN MarketsWiki Education GoFundMe campaign. Tony McCormick of BOX, Robert Moore of Marquette Partners and Jennifer Nayar of Vela all gave to our campaign to preserve industry history. Tony McCormick is a friend of JLN who has played many roles in the industry, including at Schwab and at BOX. He is now the head of BOX Exchange LLC, having previously served as CEO of BOX Options Markets LLC. Rob Moore is a friend of JLN, veteran trader and general partner of Marquette Partners, an international liquidity provider to exchange-traded markets. Marquette Partners has been a loyal Friend level sponsor of MarketsWiki. We interviewed Rob back in 2011 for our History of Financial Futures project that helped spawn our history preservation efforts. Jennifer Nayar is the CEO of Vela and one of the highest profile female technology leaders in the industry. Her resume features impressive stops at REDI Global Technologies, NYSE Euronext, NYFIX Inc, Omgeo, Mercator (formerly Braid), Thomson ESG, and the London Stock Exchange. Vela is also a loyal Friend level MarketsWiki sponsor.
| | | | | | Lead Stories | | | Options Being Used More for Speculation Than Traditional Hedging
Gregory Calderone - Bloomberg
Patterns in options trading are confirming the suspicion that retail investors are largely behind the shift in how options are being used, which has partially helped the stock market recover from its Covid-19 selloff in March.
While traditionally a tool that fund managers have used to hedge their portfolios, it now appears options are being used more for speculative bets on the price of the underlying shares by retail investors. A surge in trading of small lots of options this year has been linked to the growing number of individuals who got involved in the market amid the Covid-19 lockdowns.
/bloom.bg/3gEtBMl
Options investors swarm U.S. value stocks on hopes of economic reopening
April Joyner - Reuters
Retail investors are stepping up their options buying, pouring money into airlines, small caps and other potential beneficiaries of a COVID-19 vaccine even as U.S. stocks hover near record highs.
Volume on call options, which are typically used to position for gains in stocks, is at its highest since early September, according to Deutsche Bank. Much of the activity has come in the form of small-lot purchases on individual stocks, a hallmark of retail investor activity, analysts said.
/reut.rs/3gDjc3o
Johnson and EU Warn of No Deal as Deadline Nears: Brexit Update
Ian Wishart and Christian Wienberg - Bloomberg
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen both warned that a no-deal Brexit is looming on Dec. 31 as they continued last-ditch talks to try to reach a deal before Sunday.
Johnson said on Friday that a no-deal Brexit at the end of the year now looks "very, very likely." His pleas for European Union leaders to step in and salvage the faltering negotiations were frustrated as summit talks overran on Thursday night, pushing Brexit to the fringes. On Friday, von der Leyen spent just 10 minutes briefing government leaders on the subject.
/bloom.bg/37eeExH
*****JB: I feel like we've been here before.
Brexit poses threat of 'market volatility and disruption', BoE warns; UK central bank's financial stability report says EU-based investors face risk to transactions
Matthew Vincent - FT
Ending the Brexit transition period without an agreement on financial services risks "volatility and disruption", the Bank of England has warned, adding that it may have to intervene to keep markets operating smoothly as it did at the height of the pandemic in March.
/on.ft.com/3nbkp4q
Brexit could disrupt $200 billion in derivatives trading, BoE says
Huw Jones - Reuters
Derivatives trading worth $200 billion a day faces disruption from European Union curbs and customers too slow to move business from London before full Brexit, the Bank of England said on Friday.
Britain's access to the EU in financial services is being dealt with by Brussels separately from stalled negotiations that increasingly point to a no-deal Brexit on Dec. 31.
/reut.rs/376es3f
BoE has limited power to calm market after Brexit transition: Bailey
Reuters
Governor Andrew Bailey said on Friday there was a limit to the Bank of England's ability to avoid all disruption or volatility in financial markets after Britain's Brexit transition period with the European Union ends on Dec. 31.
/reut.rs/2W4ekuG
Why Traders Are Taking a No-Deal Brexit Threat In Their Stride
Jill Ward and William Shaw - Bloomberg
With just three weeks to go, Britain is hurtling toward a no-deal Brexit and yet markets are decidedly sanguine on the looming economic shock.
It's a scenario that few imagined a year ago. Helped by dollar weakness, the pound isn't far from the highest in two years and the FTSE 250 Index is down just 3% this week. The spread between French and Irish debt, a gauge of Brexit anxiety, is the narrowest since September.
/bloom.bg/3ncYjP7
| | | | | | Exchanges and Clearing | | | Volatility Trading Through The End Of The Post-Brexit Transition Period
Eurex
The Brexit process continues with the next big deadline coming on December 31 when the post-Brexit transition period comes to an end. There is a lot of uncertainty as to what the end of this temporary normalcy will bring. The financial impact of moving to the next phase of Brexit will be felt most in Europe and no other index will reflect the market's concerns or relief associated with this process than VSTOXX. Trading VSTOXX futures and options through the end of the post-Brexit transition period will offer up opportunities for those expecting elevated volatility to drop with a smooth transition or if the end of the transition period will bring more uncertainty and an increase in VSTOXX.
/bit.ly/2IEE0Lr
MIAX and MGEX Announce SPIKES Futures December 14 Relaunch
MIAX
Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC (MIAX) and the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) today announce the planned December 14 relaunch of futures on the SPIKES Index (SPIKES Futures) on MGEX via the CME Globex platform.
/bit.ly/3720LlT
Micro E-mini Equity Options Surpass 500,000 Contracts Traded
CME Group
CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced that more than 500,000 options on its Micro E-mini S&P 500 and Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures contracts have traded since launch on August 31.
/bit.ly/2II69Bq
Cboe Global Markets Announces Date of Fourth-Quarter 2020 Earnings Release and Conference Call
Cboe
Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a market operator and global trading solutions provider, today said it will announce its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2020 before the market opens on Friday, February 5, 2021. A conference call with remarks by the company's senior management will begin at 7:30 a.m. Central Time (CT), 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (ET).
/bit.ly/2KaAhFR
| | | | | | Regulation & Enforcement | | | SR-CBOE-2020-116
Cboe
The Exchange proposes to add options on the Mini-Russell 2000 Index ("Mini-RUT" or "MRUT") to its P.M. Pilot Program.
/bit.ly/3a1KDTf
| | | | | | Strategy | | | Fed 'Manipulation' Crushes Can't-Miss Trade in U.S. Bond Market
Vivien Lou Chen - Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve is casting a long shadow over the world's biggest bond market, derailing a classic recovery trade and underscoring how an era of central-bank intervention will reverberate for some time to come.
The mere hint that the Fed may take additional steps to hold down long-term rates is causing Treasury traders to scale back so-called steepener bets -- a tried-and-true strategy that has generated big profits over the years as economic rebounds pushed yields higher. Barclays Plc is keeping a lid on the size of its positions. Incapital is using options, rather than actual bonds, for a hedged -- and more cautious -- riff on the trade. And Nick Maroutsos of Janus Henderson Investors says some "could get flattened" by the wager.
/bloom.bg/2W4eWAu
Oil Volatility Continues To Drive Demand In 3X US Oil Exchange Traded Products
Spencer Israel - MarketWatch
Due to the uncertainty that COVID-19 was going to have on the global economy in general, and crude oil specifically, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) front-month futures contracts closed at a negative price in April 2020. WTI represents the price for future delivery of a barrel of WTI crude oil. Since June 2020, WTI front-month futures contracts have traded between $34-$43 per contract. As of December 2020, WTI closed above $46 for the first time since early March 2020.
/on.mktw.net/37aI67w
| | | | | | Events | | | 2020 Annual Trends in Futures and Options Trading
FIA
27 January 2021 ⢠10:30 AM - 11:30 AM ET ⢠Webinar
This webinar will highlight the main trends in trading activity in 2020 in the global exchange-traded derivatives markets, with category and regional breakdowns as well as exchange and contract rankings.
Moderator: Will Acworth, Senior Vice President of Publications, Data & Research, FIA
/bit.ly/3qR3I0K
| | | | | | Miscellaneous | | | When the Stock Market Is Too Much Fun
Jason Zweig - WSJ
Technology can make investing easy and fun. It can also downplay risk in ways that may lead novices astray.
In last week's column, I described my experience on the popular Robinhood brokerage app, especially how trading became hard to stop once I started. Now let's look at how Robinhood may encourage risky behaviors that could backfire.
/on.wsj.com/3mb1lSO
(Podcast) OB 958: Talking NIO, VIX, TSLA, AAPL, FB, LULU, ADT and More
Option Block - Options Insider Network
/bit.ly/2IFLj5H
| | | | | | | | | JLN Options is sponsored by: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|
|
| | | |
| | | | John Lothian News (JLN) is the news division of John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. (JJLCO). The online media and financial services firm is staffed by derivatives industry, journalism and technology professionals. | | | | | | | John Lothian News Editorial Staff: | | | John Lothian
Publisher | | | Sarah Rudolph
Editor-in-Chief
| | | Jeff Bergstrom
Editor
| | | Matt Raebel
Editor
| | |
|
|
Disclaimer: All John Lothian Newsletters, JohnLothianNews.com, MarketsWiki.com and MarketsReformWiki.com are products of John Lothian News, a division of John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. The opinions expressed in all John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. publications are strictly those of their respective editors. They are intended solely for informative purposes and are not to be construed, under any circumstances, by implication or otherwise, as an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy or trade in any commodities or securities herein named. Information is obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but is in no way guaranteed. No guarantee of any kind is implied or possible where projections of future conditions are attempted. Security futures are not suitable for all customers. Futures and options trading involve risk. Past results are no indication of future performance. Nothing on any John J. Lothian & Company site should be considered an endorsement by any sponsor of any website or newsletter content.
© 2019 John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
|
|
