Posts Tagged ‘Tibra’

Fresh play-offs at the old exchange

30 Nov 2011

Great, it’s time for the annual play-off for market maker licenses. The auction for primary market maker (pmm) licenses was held two months ago. The contestants had a month for learning the tricks of the trade. From December 1st they will start for real. Tight markets in scores of option classes. The market maker with [...]

Tibra’s profits -31% to 39 million

25 Jan 2011

Tibra is always a little different from the other major market makers. First of all, they represent the only significant Australian market maker – and second they have another book year for their yearly report. Their trading year ends on the 30th of June, which makes it slightly difficult to compare them with their peers. [...]

Searching a job as market maker

9 Nov 2009

Recently several comments and e-mails by fresh university graduates requested for more information on getting a job as a derivative trader in Amsterdam. As the visitors, Google and this site are close friends it would make sense to write a tiny how-to and where-to get a job in Amsterdam trading firms. Basically there are seven [...]

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. [...]


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