Posts Tagged ‘Binck

Breaking news from The Order Machine, or TOM for friends: Founders Optiver and Binck invited another firm to join the party. ABN AMRO Bank is acquiring a 25% stake in TOM and the new powerful shareholder will join the board. Currently, ABN AMRO is already acting as clearing member for trades on TOM. The press [...]

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 [...]

TOM is confused

31 Jan 2010

The joint venture of online retailbroker Binck and trading firm Optiver has changed plans. The new chief Willem Meijer isn’t afraid to admit the whole plan initially was intended to channel Binck’s retail flow into the books of Optiver with TOM, which stands for The Optiver Machine. The reason for this sudden turn-around isn’t quite [...]

2009 expiration

26 Dec 2009

The year 2009 is almost gone, and trading has been fairly quiet as usual during the last weeks. Plenty of time to look back on the events of 2009. All Options to buy Saen Options One of the few main events this year happened straight in the first month. January 28th the market maker All [...]

This very professional logo with the green circles will not encounter a lot of recognition among the members of the Amsterdam derivative trading society. It belongs to the APT (we can read, yes). APT stands for the Association of Proprietary Traders, but it’s not very clear what they’re doing. The APT is the successor of [...]


  • anonymous: The AMX and FMX Index contracts will go into pre-open 16:40 (CET) All other AEX contracts will go i [...]
  • Cees Vermaas: Bel futures will open at 16:35 (CET) and the option at 16:37 (CET) Members are advised to check the [...]
  • anonymous: Due to a technical issue trading in AEX (including the AMX & FMX) and Bel futures and options co [...]
  • anonymous: and again!!!! i love it [...]
  • anonymous: Only the amsterdam segment of Enxt is having problems, its a conspiracy......... [...]
  • anonymous: All trades done during the opening of the Amsterdam individual stock options and Amsterdam Currency [...]
  • anonymous: Opened....and closed again. [...]
  • anonymous: Euronext Liffe is closed....again. [...]
  • anonymous: yes its very moronic to even read the article with headline of Dow 100,000 .. what's more moronic th [...]
  • anonymous: So you quote someone, without actually reading his article, and call him a moron based on that? Now [...]

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