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BATS Equities Market Share Jumps, Options Rise Too
BATS Global Markets reported its U.S. equities matched market share totaled 11.5 percent in April, rising from 10.9 percent in March, and jumping up from 10.6 percent a year ago.
NASDAQ Launches MSCI index-based options
NASDAQ OMX announced Tuesday the launch of MSCI Emerging Markets and MSCI EAFE index options. The options are available to investors who want exposure to a previously untapped market with a cash-settled options offering that exactly tracks the performance of the index.
Macro Risk Advisors Expands Equity Derivatives Desk
Agency-broker Macro Risk Advisors is expanding its equity derivatives trading desk, capitalizing on what it sees as the buyside's desire to work with smaller brokers and on sales traders looking to leave their bulge bracket homes.
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Exchange Fatigue
With Nasdaq's recent announcement that it planned to launch a third options exchange, the number of options exchanges could climb from nine to 12 this year. That has some brokers grumbling.
Adios Chicago
The Chicago Board Options Exchange, for competitive reasons and due to member demand, will move its primary options trading platform from Chicago to New Jersey in the fourth quarter.
Big Draw: New ISE Policy Brings in Options Market Makers
The International Securities Exchange, in a bid to reverse an ongoing decline in its market share, is expanding the ranks of its market makers. In the past seven months, ISE has signed up five new market makers and expects to add "a couple more," according to exchange executives. From 20 market makers in July 2011, ISE now boasts 25.
Complex Orders Surge
The options industry recorded double-digit growth last year, and at least one broker credited the use of sophisticated strategies for its good fortune.
Industry Eyes Institutions
Options industry officials are looking to large investors for growth. According to one veteran options executive, growth in the use of options by retail investors is flagging, so the industry is looking upstream for order flow.
CBOE Thrives on Volatility
Chicago Board Options Exchange chairman and chief executive officer Bill Brodsky and president and chief operating officer Ed Tilly broke bread with the New York City press corps in January in order to update the scribes on the exchange operator's initiatives. Traders Magazine presents a slice of the Q&A session.
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