Cboe eyes physically-delivered VIX options for US futures traders

[FSU]

@FSU - quick answer is regulatory bullshit and what constitutes investment advice. It's an easy out to send you back to your member firm. There is a whole slew of new practices on what a 24 needs to review, what needs to be archived, and what could be considered investment advice.
They've gone nuts over "record-keeping" violations of the b/d community - the exchange community is even more gun-shy.
It's just easier to avoid it.

I assumed thats what it was. It just makes things so much more difficult. I miss the old days when you could call anyone at the CBOE and they were happy to help.

 

[ajacobson]

The other challenge at CBOE is that so many of the old crew" was pushed when BATS got the ability to name division heads.
Are you senior enough to remember Mr. Big ?

 

[FSU]

I feel like I'm Senior enough, but don't remember Mr. Big?

 

[ajacobson]

Ran the help team. We used to kid him that his phone was 1 800 Bad Fill.

 

[schizo]

I miss the old days when you could call anyone at the CBOE and they were happy to help.

Same here. Those were the good ol' days. It's like a buffet of never-ending insider information. You know the drill: You scratch my back and I'll scratch your back.

 

[Slow Learning Elf]

Was there any updates on this? They had both options on futures and a new (yet another) iteration of variance futures in the pipeline but suddenly went all quiet