Posts Tagged ‘Eurex

Threw my orange jersey in the garbage can. After the painful defeat against the Germans, there’s more important football on our schedule. Not in a distant Soviet state, but in the cozy village of Abcoude the ninth edition of the Financial Football Tournament will be held. The well known trading software provider ORC has stepped in as [...]

Golf with Eurex

11 Sep 2011

Only a couple of years ago the world of trading was easy. The banks and hedge funds traded OTC against each other and everything smaller such as market makers traded the regular way. A few years and a few banks later, things have changed a little. Apart from offering regular block trading, Eurex is also [...]

There has been a traditional bit of competition between derivative markets Eurex and Euronext. Mostly for the sake of tradition and maybe a little bit for the European Union (look mother, we’re playing competitors). Loaded with employees, slow to adapt and absolutely unfit to combat lean and mean contenders, the exchanges look more like a [...]

The year of 2010 is basically over, everyone expects trading to be rather thin the last two weeks and shift their attention to Christmas presents and having drinks with brokers and clearing banks. This has been a difficult year for most of us, with a lack of trading hurting profits of several firms. There have [...]

This week started with volatilities dropping to new lows, but thanks to the Irish banking crisis we’ve seen some action after all. Perhaps this turmoil on the green island will reignite the European debt crisis again, with returning panic and failing banks. Could save the year for a lot of market makers. With the possibility [...]


  • London Gregoire: Meijer shouldn't shave until TOM overtakes Euronext in the dutch options [...]
  • TOM to expand in Europe - amsterdamtrader: [...] Euronext sues TOM on AEX Options [...] [...]
  • Aad: Same shit over here. And really, we have al the specs to be fast enough. [...]
  • ghostrider: truely tragic. condolences. [...]
  • vikr: Hats off to RoCo. [...]
  • VdM: Allmost on the same day another well known person from the trading community in Amsterdam passed awa [...]
  • NRC: Advertisements in newspaper NRC: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/uwbjka8dgg26exh/20130406_NH_selectie_2_12. [...]
  • anonymous: Agreed [...]
  • anonymous: let's go to IMC since they pay good bonuses there [...]
  • anonymous: Tibra is not doing well, and when the CFO, who knows everything about their finances, leaves this i [...]

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