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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…?

A New Front In The Penny War

Rising transaction costs have opened up a dramatic new front in the growing war over penny pricing…

The Chicago Trading Forum

The 2nd annual Chicago Trading Forum was an interesting event that brought together a wide variety of options, futures & securities representatives. The forum touched on a host of issues including alternative trading systems, regulatory gridlock, portfolio margining and, of course, penny pricing. However, like any industry gathering, the forum was not without its share of controversy…

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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.

Possible Put Closers in AMLP

Possible Put Closers in AMLP

It looks like there were some put closers in AMLP today with two large blocks of Oct 19 puts hitting the bid at 0.475

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