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I can get you done, but it would have to be OTC and thru my firm. PM me. Can do as little as 1 lot.

Citadel & Optiver = Apples & Oranges

Quite a move. Been swamped all morning.

Just wanted to point out that new properties are going towards rent properties vs. the single family home (which is how every media outlet is spinning the #s).

Re: Housing- From acrossthecurve.com, "Analysts note that 82 percent of the increase is in the volatile multi family category rather the single family category which only increased 1 percent."

ids, Does IB have access to the NYMEX floor? These options can be executed on the floor through a futures account.

I think the risk implied here is counter-party risk.

Most of the show was amusing, but the undated interview of Stanford was bullshit. Completely out of context and pre-scandal.

Every single one of those is down since 2/27.

Does anyone have a fresh CDS quote on GECC? Last I saw was 13.5 / 15.5

F/H, J/V, X/Z are pretty popular. I've seen M/N/Q fly, V/X/Z fly, X/Z/F fly, and V/X vs. V/X condor. The condors I see are usually out a few years into cal 14, 15, and have seen as far out as 2020 on the H/J.

The physical trading is very much so "who you know." The phys/paper markets seem to be two different worlds, with the physical traders being more of the older crowd who have been in the industry for years, and established long term friends. The paper markets tend to be younger guys who got...

If you were long calls from Feb 20, then you've lost on two fronts: vol and theta. Yea, this may be a temp bottom, but every intraday rally seems to get sold and the collapse in VIX on the 24th was way too premature to really hold water. I think that dam is getting weaker by the tick.

Read up on Andrew Hall @ Phibro.

With VIX getting crushed today, I feel like general sentiment is that we have reached a temp/technical bottom. Any other posits?

Legal recourse when you own 10 lots? Zero. Just google Risk Arbitrage

I don't think Peak6 is anywhere near the league Citadel once was.

Buy and hold is for retirement planning. No one plans to retire in 8 years time.

People you have never heard of. He asks his analysts/consultants where they think the markets are going, pawns those ideas off as his own, bags the analyst and moves on to the next "lucky" underling looking to move up the ladder.

Boone was a mirror of the people he hired, and often times, fucked them out of the compensation they deserved for their ideas. A charlatan and nothing more.