Recent content by dwormer

That kind of loss wouldn't cause Ronin to have their assets auctioned off by the CME Exchange. It's probable that after Ronin's positions were auctioned, they still had equity remaining meaning that ABN didn't lose anything on Ronin. However, if ABN was in fact allowing Parplus to operate...

I meant to say that the traders had their own accounts at MF Global and would have been forced to liquidate positions with tolerable margins and under normal circumstances were well capitalized except for the way in which the Exchange was handling their options positions causing some of them to...

I had previously posted that I wondered if Ronin was still a going concern despite the loss. Lothian's article touched upon some of the questions I had raised. Does anyone know if Ronin's traders are still going into the office or have they gone to different firms? During the MF Global...

That's what I was thinking. I thought Ronin was a Clearing Member of the CME Exchange but their trades were processed by ABN AMRO. Not sure what the financial arrangement was between the two firms.

I was just curious if the auction wiped out all of the firm's equity or if they still continue to operate as a firm given the other Exchanges they trade on and their other venture investments. It was always kind of strange how the firm was set up between their various interests. Did the loss...

So are all of Ronin's traders done? Ronin was always set up as groups of individual traders who were basically backed by the firm and didn't share in the profits/losses of the other groups unless a situation like this happened where I assume that all traders had their equity wiped out. That...

You might want to look at this link: http://www.axonetric.com/algos/. They've created some market making jobs that run on Option City's Freeway platform.

Does anyone have any reliable sources to receive daily options players primarily in the CBOT Treasury Options contracts? Looking for any groups that either live tweet or send players over e-mail. I just started looking into setting up a trading operation for a fund based out of California and...