Gordon Gekko is one of the few fictional characters who made it into the serious finance textbooks. His speech for the Teldar Paper stockholders is epic. After two decades, Oliver Stone made his disappointing sequel. Wall Street : Money Never Sleeps. Something with green energy. Movies about trading are scarce, and in general have notRead more
Chances are you have had a difficult evening explaining your family members the stress and panic caused by the Dow Jones brief cave of nearly 1000 points. After all, it can’t be important as it hasn’t been on national television. And those gamma, vega and delta positions after a 15% gap down in the morningRead more
In a fortnight a new product will see the light of day on the Amsterdam derivative markets. The AEX dividend futures will start trading on May 3rd. This opens possibilities for getting exposure to yearly annual dividends in the AEX index, or to hedge your long term dividend risks. If the futures will turn outRead more
Breaking news in the financial newspaper Financieele Dagblad on our desks after returning from a long weekend eating Easter bunnies and searching for eggs. The market is fairly quiet, the volatility is fairly low and the trading profits for most firms are limited. Nothing new so far, but the market makers have invested substantially inRead more
Sometimes there’s a serious news story on the Amsterdam derivative markets. Developments within trading firms, stockexchanges or some legal wars. This time it’s a little different. There’s nothing I have but question marks. Received some mail with questions on the one-lot-trader who’s dominating the AEX index options market in the front months, as well asRead more
