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Fooling retail investors with new tick size

23 May 2009

Euronext is finally ready to introduce the one-cent tick size in the Amsterdam stock options market. This Premium Based Tick Size plan has been postponed for a while, the crisis curbed their enthusiasm in November 2008. Seven months later the united market maker lobby has achieved some success as well. The threshold has been set [...]

Bid-ask spread tightens in option market

26 Apr 2009

Before the outbreak of the crisis, the world of derivatives was as exciting as a the running episodes of Sesame Street. Some minor changes, but basically every day the same. Press releases could be copy-pasted from the previous month. Volume of traded options went up, and bid-ask spreads went down. This has all been ruined [...]

Play-off for market makers

11 Apr 2009

Twice a year Euronext is auctioning licenses for market makers in options. The market makers don’t have to pay for the right to send their quotes, they just have to fulfil their duty. The right to send quotes to the market is granted to the market makers who commit themselves to the tightest bid-ask spreads. [...]

Optiver-Binck deal threatens option market

19 Mar 2009

In June 2008 the Dutch option powerhouse Optiver announced to team up with the biggest Dutch retail broker Binck to create their own marketplace. Retail clients of the broker would do all their option trading against Optiver, under the assumption of equal option quotes. Within the ruling of the MiFiD, the European markets directive, this [...]

Heuschrecke may sue Porsche

16 Mar 2009

Hedge funds are reluctant to accept their losses on the VW short squeeze. The German sportscar maker Porsche squeezed billions out of the financial Heuschrecke. Not used to losing a battle against a bigger fish, hedge fund managers want the money back. Lawyers have been put to work to sue Porsche for manipulating the market. [...]


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  • 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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