Posts Tagged ‘Market Wizards

Many traders will remember the great trade in Getronics options early 2005. A smart fella found a loophole in Euronext’s Corporate Actions Policy with regard to a reverse stock split in penny stock Getronics. Some options existed with a tiny block size of 12, called the GTO (Getronics Old) class. A left-over of an earlier [...]

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 [...]

A long time ago, All Options and its owner Allard Jakobs were banned from trading on Euronext. They returned in 2005 and they certainly did it in style. They traded against the rest of the market in a tiny option class called Getronics-Old (GTO). And lost millions. Legal procedures are still ongoing, and according to [...]


  • 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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