Between the champions league final and the world cup in South Africa lies another major football event. This saturday, the 29th of May, the annual All Options Football Tournament will be held again. All Options definitely deserves a lot of brownie points for organizing this tournament again, in cooperation with Eurex, KBC Clearing and Bennington.Read more
Gordon Gekko is one of the few fictional characters who made it into the serious finance textbooks. His speech for the Teldar Paper stockholders is epic. After two decades, Oliver Stone made his disappointing sequel. Wall Street : Money Never Sleeps. Something with green energy. Movies about trading are scarce, and in general have notRead more
Independent Wholesale Brokerage was formerly known as Oyens & Van Eeghen brokerage, but among traders it has always been known als IWB. Completely unknown by the outside world, this firm is arranging trades between profesional clients and market makers with the use of voice brokerage : talking all day to market makers and trading desksRead more
Chances are you have had a difficult evening explaining your family members the stress and panic caused by the Dow Jones brief cave of nearly 1000 points. After all, it can’t be important as it hasn’t been on national television. And those gamma, vega and delta positions after a 15% gap down in the morningRead more
The long awaited dividend futures are finally open for trading on the AEX. The trick of the trade seems simple, estimate the yearly dividend, and quote it all day. Doesn’t really move anymore. Euronext has found two liquidity providers ready to “quote” these futures. From the USA there’s Susquehanna (SIG) and from France there’s theRead more
