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TradeAlert · 21 hrs · Edited · AMZN - Amazon options quietly break volume record as shares lift following holiday. Shares closed up nearly $80, or 4.5%, today at $1868.77 following positive holiday sales commentary, with options volume of 543K contracts breaking the previous record of 522K...

No margin - that kills about half the ideas. Is it a retirement account - otherwise get it margin approved and increase your flexibility.

It's behind a paywall, but still an interesting stat. https://www.wsj.com/articles/congratulations-bear-stearns-jpmorgans-stock-triple-erases-deal-discount-11577269801?mod=hp_lead_pos5

Something to consider - find an index that best equates what you view as risk. Buy longer-dated index puts and adjust as the market rises - sell shorter-dated index calls and even if you get a pop the portfolio remains intact. It's a collar with different expirations. Careful about mark to...

Diversified double net bond ETFs and funds actual create decent demand for Illinois paper

You can't always find an MM to do it and most retail won't work very hard as there is no $$ in it.

Big pay rise at D.E. Shaw in London by Sarah Butcher 13 December 2019 "the first great quant hedge fund," D.E. Shaw launched in above a Marxist bookshop in New York City in the 1980s and came to the UK 13 years ago. D.E. Shaw & Co. (London) LLP just released its results for the year ending...

Peel of a loss if you have one

Ask your broker if they can find a MM to do a Cabinet Trade. Clean exit date and price.

Waiting to see how much they tag their four destinations.

https://johnlothiannews.com/profiles-blair-hull/?fbclid=IwAR3m_KnnVqwpXAd3kg8TSjpgh21hXEQWmO8MGPjzgvXmMlb9JOn3BekE7Ts Probably the most famous/successful options trader!

December 20, 2019 Checking in on Micro E-Mini Volume Trends Russell Rhoads TABB Group Followed! | Profile | More Share Despite initial questions, the launch of Micro E-Mini futures could be considered one of the most successful product launches in years, especially for the S&P 500...

Holding Valjoux and ETA movements off the market intentionally.

What Bloomberg Misses About Citadel Securities View Larger Image “You can have all the transfer orders that you want, but you have to ask me nicely.” – Col. Nathan R. Jessup, “A Few Good Men” On December 11, 2019, Bloomberg News editor Tom Maloney publishes an unusually illuminating article...

"is this what rentec uses to prevent its employees from leaving the company?" It's a common practice. Many firms with scale will also create an "employee only" retirement portfolio or give key trade staff some discretionary $$ to trade with a profit split.

Hire a second in command. Employment contract where the annual bonus is paid a third a year - so you pay tax on the entire bonus, but two thirds stays with firm and violations forfeit the balance of the bonus. After a few years you are very invested in the firm and you actually begin to see...

Someone paid him seven figures to license his name and they indemnified him against any responsibility.

Too much noise in the open interest. How many exchanges is the option listed on and how much of the underlying trades can be a superior metric. It's just not a clean enough member in many cases to create a generalization. Obviously good OI can be good. In the 1980s the CBOE traded a name TMX...

Pre 87 there was a broker in the OEX who was post-surgery and wearing a bag via a stoma. Never had to leave the pit.

One of the biggest stock loan operations on the street. Not certain Edge gets full access.