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Wall Street & The Options Market – Part Two

It wasn't long ago that most Wall Street analysts considered the derivatives markets to be dangerous and arcane financial backwaters. Derivatives might be useful tools for executive compensation or for sophisticated hedge funds, but the real action was in the equity and fixed income markets. These days, with several options exchanges operating as public companies and the remainder considering IPOs, Wall Street analysts/researchers have become regular fixtures in the options industry. While many of these analysts are relative newcomers to this marketplace, they offer a refreshing, amusing and sometimes bizarre perspective on the world of options…

Wall Street & The Options Market

It wasn't long ago that most Wall Street analysts considered the derivatives markets to be dangerous and arcane financial backwaters. Derivatives might be useful tools for executive compensation or for sophisticated hedge funds, but the real action was in the equity and fixed income markets. These days, with several options exchanges operating as public companies and the remainder considering IPOs, Wall Street analysts/researchers have become regular fixtures in the options industry. While many of these analysts are relative newcomers to this marketplace, they offer a refreshing, amusing and sometimes bizarre perspective on the world of options…

Wall Street & The Options Market

Chair:Michael Ryan, Head of Wealth Management Research – Americas, UBSSpeakers:Brad Bailey, Senior Research Analyst, Aite GroupBrendan Caldwell, President and Chief Executive Officer, Caldwell Investment ManagementRichard Repetto, Partner, Sandler O'Neill & PartnersMike Vinciquerra, Managing Director, Research, BMO Capital Markets

Are The Days of Cheap Options Commissions At An End?

The growth of the retail options business has long been subsidized by taxes on liquidity providers. The revenues from these taxes are then passed onto the order flow providers in the form of payment for order flow. While this practice is highly controversial, it has also contributed to the massive reduction in retail options commissions over the past decade. However, the onset of the maker-taker pricing structure is beginning to threaten that tenuous arrangement. Can the retail brokers survive the squeeze…?

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Size Call Buyers Active in AXL

Size Call Buyers Active in AXL

Size call buyers hit up the Jan 2015 17 calls today in AXL. The total volume is 7777 today with the buyers pretty much lifting the offer.

Rolling Down Puts in ACM

Rolling Down Puts in ACM

In what appears to have all the hallmarks of a put buyer rolling down, today paper traded 5000 ACM Dec 30/32.5 put spreads at .95.

Call Ratios Trade in AAPL

Call Ratios Trade in AAPL

Today paper traded AAPL 103/105 ratio call spreads. This type of spread is meant to reduce the cost of the Oct 103 call.

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Google Investing $1 Billion In CME

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