Anyone who has ever watched late-night television, or listened to Options Insider Radio, understands that con artists are a growing problem in the derivatives business. However, now there is a new angle on derivatives scams, and it involves something else that retail investors typically do not understand ? foreign currency trading.
Anyone who has ever watched late-night television, or listened to Options Insider Radio, understands that con artists are a growing problem in the derivatives business. However, now there is a new angle on derivatives scams, and it involves something else that retail investors typically do not understand ? foreign currency trading.
Everywhere you look, there are signs that the options business is booming. Revenues are up across the board. Each week, a press release announces that another long-standing volume record has been shattered. However, when you dig beneath the swarms of press releases and celebratory annual reports, you quickly realize that something strange is afoot. This bonanza might not be all it’s cracked up to be.
With the VIX rapidly approaching celebrity status and a new index on the horizon, the CBOE is cashing in on volatility.
Conference season is upon us! An advance look at the kickoff event for the derivatives year.
The options industry continues to set new trading records every year. Unfortunately, despite this explosion in volume, many financial professionals remain skeptical of the options markets. So the options industry has spent millions developing automated buy-write products to lure these reticent professionals into the fold.
The term buy-write is completely foreign to most retail investors. In fact, more than a few professional traders scratch their heads whenever they hear this archaic piece of options jargon. What does it mean? What are the downsides to this approach? Will we ever succeed in making buy-writes easy to use?
For decades, they have been the cloak and dagger arm of Wall Street. These mysterious entities trade on behalf of secretive clients, concocting elaborate strategies that move markets and occasionally destroy them. Now they've set their eyes on the options markets…
Is the derivatives world doomed to suffer under dual regulation forever?
Is the derivatives world doomed to suffer under dual regulation forever?
The pilot has begun…
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