Lynx wins football tournament
31 comments / August 31, 2014
A bright day for the Dutch football this weekend during the annual Financial Football Tournament. After Eurex (2013) and EEX (2012) it was finally online broker Lynx keeping the title in The Netherlands for a year.
As usual, the final was a close call. The game between Eurex Frankfurt and Lynx was undecided after regular time.
A penalty series was required, and after seven (!) penalties Lynx won the cup. Unsure if Karel Mercx was allowed to take a penalty. Congrats to Lynx and thanks to Bennington for organizing the event.
first,
here we go with the Sunday night posting by jack of clubs, people are so predictable
quite remarkable to see how many white haired nice folks are listening to Karel drivel, might as well pay him their money upfront and go play some afternoon bingo
Lynx aside, seems like another dutch MM is about to bite the dust:
http://www.afr.com/p/business/companies/optiver_leaves_asx_local_trading_4Lwgl0Q7hcEZmHIW3JkLrM
The once great Dutch MM powerhouses are all but a distant memory sort of like the tulips
it sounds like its less of supply issue and more of demand problem, if people aren’t trading why would great dutch mm keep quoting, sounds like smart move from optiver?
it would be hard to revive the market now given the downward spiral?
may it rest in peace
great dutch mm
what’s that ?
optiver and imc, duh?
ASX option volumes have been in a death spiral for more than 10 years. Why bother having overpaid traders quote shitty stocks with no volume when they can trade more profitable products on the Asian markets instead? Also saves a fair bit in costs for data centers and IT staff. I don’t think the problem is Optiver, the problem is the ASX.
ROFL @ 12:26am not getting the joke.
me neither, maybe that wasn’t a joke, duh?
you probably won’t get the above either, so peace, ma man
‘I don’t think the problem is Optiver’
you had to think about that, duh?
you get it now, ma man?
to the original poster, obviously you have no idea. optiver is not trading ASX because they are making too much money elsewhere and its not worth their while
how’s your comment different from the other comment below, apart from the fact that your life largely revolves around showing off your ball size
‘it sounds like its less of supply issue and more of demand problem, if people aren’t trading why would great dutch mm keep quoting, sounds like smart move from optiver?’
on the same note, how much is optiver asia gross trading pnl, 100/200 eur? what’s the split for asx vs non asx, 5:95 ?
pls note the ‘ball size’, you got only one, so you got that much more preoccupation with its size
“global market-making giant Optiver”
I particularly liked that
Killing it on Nikkei, nifty and hang sang in that order. Target pl well over 250
250 eur or 250 usd?
is this for first 8 months of this year?
for optiver or for imc?
“global market-making giant Optiver”
i tried finding this quote above, who and when did somebody say this?
@8.30 the afr article in the 2nd comment, 2nd row of it
http://www.afr.com/p/business/companies/optiver_leaves_asx_local_trading_4Lwgl0Q7hcEZmHIW3JkLrM
if you think optiver is neither ‘global’ nor ‘mm giant’, what are your thresholds of being global and mm giant respectively?
I call BS on 250 for those three markets. I’d call 1/2 to 1/3rd of those figures if even that.
mate i call this whole website a bs, join the queue already
@7:05 on what basis do you call BS, you sound like you are in the know? then again if you did know you wouldnt be on this website
how did you conclude that ‘being on this site’ and ‘being in know’ are mutually exclusive?
@2:29 have a think about it? this site is hardly the domain of senior management
rob n pot disagree, lol
Let’s just say I know more about these markets than the average bonehead on these boards. Look at their overall profits the past couple of years. Vol is down. Spreads are tighter and you think they are going to pull in 200mm+ — LOL.
how did you conclude i was an average bonehead, maybe it’s the same for you too?
didn’t call you a bonehead. but time for you to do some work and get off this site. you must be good to have time for this gossip and making millions, im sure your bosses/underlings would be happy with you putting input here
mate, it takes me about twenty seconds to write some stupid comment, it’s not too different from turning to somebody next to you and making an interesting observation when one comes to mind, only here you can actually say what comes to your mind, like if the person above you is saying something stupid, you can call him a moron, it’s much harder to do in real life, duh?
and in terms of making millions as a mm, well, it would be hard to get ‘free’ time, sure, but not if you are a speculator, then you have all the time in the world, all at your discretion, and even more when you are going through a rough patch
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