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Dutch stock options trading in Germany

Written by Jack. Posted at 9:57 pm on July 14th, 2010

A few days ago I listed the most traded stock options last week on Euronext. For several years, the German rival derivatives exchange Eurex has tried to capture market share from Amsterdam. While it never has been a cut throat threat to Euronext, mainly due to retail investors kept at the Dutch home market by their brokers, Eurex never gave up and in some option classes it it participating for over 20%.

I’ve collected the list of the volume on Dutch stock options traded last week, and compared with the traded volume in Amsterdam. Especially in Mittal, Unilever, ING and Philips the relative volume of Eurex is very reasonable. In 2011, or perhaps in 2012, the Dutch options will be scattered around at more exchanges – as TOM trading will be a serious contender.

Stock Euronext Eurex Eurex %
AIR FRANCE 1.819 518 22%
TNT N.V. 8.488 1946 19%
ARCELOR MITTAL 168.256 34553 17%
REED ELSEVIER N.V. 6.665 1249 16%
UNILEVER 60.568 10214 14%
AEGON 57.903 9417 14%
ING 231.688 37513 14%
PHILIPS 94.568 15016 14%
HEINEKEN 7.038 934 12%
SBM OFFSHORE NV 5.991 704 11%
ROYAL DUTCH SHELL 171.074 19497 10%
WOLTERS-KLUWER 4.929 415 8%
RANDSTAD 8.975 614 6%
AKZO NOBEL 20.868 1403 6%
ASM LITHOGRAPHY 33.719 2008 6%
KONINKLIJKE DSM N.V 14.422 721 5%
AHOLD 43.396 2038 4%
FUGRO 6.975 223 3%
TOM TOM 26.497 806 3%

(I stand corrected, percentages fixed)

Posted at 9:57 pm on July 14th, 2010. 20 comments... »
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All Options Football Tournament edition 2010

Written by Jack. Posted at 9:32 pm on May 27th, 2010
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. For the third time it will be played outside on the football pitch of FC Abcoude, in teams consisting of seven players. Indoor soccer rules apply. No flying tackles allowed.

Last year the winner was KBC Bank, with IMC as losing finalist. In 2008 the trophy was won by the Germans (Eurex). During the indoor soccer era the title was always won by the dividend cowboys of Fortis GSLA, Optiver, Market Wizards and IMC. Would be nice to construct a historical league table, including losing finalists.

This year 18 teams will be participating:

All Options Caerus
IMC Eurex
Petercam Flow Traders
ING KBC Clearing
Optiver 323 Trading
Better Options Fortis Clearing
Binck 1 Market Wizards
Scrocca AFM
KBC Bank Binck 2

Some new teams are participating this year. Petercam, ING, Scrocca and Caerus, the latter probably played under the VDM flag last year. As always, Euronext won’t be participating.

Please pay close attention to the game of 11:36 on field 1. Optiver is playing against Binck 1, and rumour has it Binck has sold this game. Anyway, there will be a photographer as usual and for the first time all matches will be filmed. Event starts early around 9:30, the final is expected around 16:30 and around the same time the barbecue will be set on fire.

Update :
After a long day of football, 323 trading emerged as the winner. The losing finalist was Caerus, who proved to be real Dutch chauvinists because they lost the final on penalties. ING and Better Options were knocked out in the semi finals.

Posted at 9:32 pm on May 27th, 2010. 33 comments... »
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