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 [...]


  • 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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