After years of begging by the rest of the market, the *ahem* prestigious firm All Options is about to give classes in option trading. Clean your agenda and cancel all appointments for November 10th and 20th, as the master classes will be free of charge and aimed at the very advanced option trader. Euronext andRead more
For the second time in a week I mistook very serious news for a joke. It started with a fresh president receiving the Nobel peace price. Five days later the local market maker All Options announced interest to buy the remains of DSB Bank. The big chief of All Options, Allard Jakobs, is notorious forRead more
After some 500 negative comments on the earlier posts on the fall of Van der Moolen, this won’t really come as a big surprise. The company finally filed for bankruptcy Wednesday night. One day earlier the brokerage department (Aespen) escaped the burning house with a management buy-out. The press release noted that discussions on the transferRead more
With all the juicy news on the demise of Van der Moolen and its surrounding scandals, one tends to forget about the rest of the market. One of the major derivative trading firms in Amsterdam is receiving a lot of attention in the press lately. Optiver is depicted as a black sheep. While I wouldn’tRead more
Last short post on the fall of Van der Moolen ignited an explosion of comments. Between the funny jokes and vicious attacks more valuable inside information was published than any single editor could think of. This website can’t handle more than 200 comments as I discovered. Real Madrid – Barcelona for VDM board? The newsRead more
