Ed Tilly, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cboe Global Markets, said: As the pioneer of the VIX Index and volatility trading, Cboe is pleased to further expand our VIX product suite with a mini contract that aims to bring VIX futures trading to a larger universe of investors and serve a variety of…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for October 11, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Hi Everyone, An apparent breakthrough has been achieved in the Brexit negotiations as Prime Minister Johnson and Irish Prime…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for June 26, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Welcome to Summer!! Watch out, it's hot. After the prolonged crypto winter that was 2018, this year has seen…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for June 11, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. It might have been a small update, or a large one, we really have no way of knowing. The…
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Exchange holding company Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has said that trading volume in options on the Cboe Volatility Index® (VIX®) reached a new all-time high on Friday, December 1. In VIX options at Cboe Options Exchange, a reported 3.1 million contracts traded on Friday, far surpassing the previous single-day record of 2.6 million…
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Copenhagen based multi asset broker Saxo Bank has announced that it is raising margin requirements and reducing leverage on a variety of FX, CFD and Commodity products, as geopolitical tensions in the Asia Pacific region heat up in the wake of increased US-North Korea rhetoric. Margin requirements on major FX pairs involving the USD, EUR…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge Amy J. St. Eve of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a Consent Order of Permanent Injunction (Order) against Defendants Igor B. Oystacher and his proprietary trading company, 3Red Trading LLC (3Red), both of Chicago, Illinois, finding that the Defendants engaged in a…
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Cyprus-headquartered brokerage easyMarkets today announced that it launched a CFD on the CBOE Volatility Index to its trading platform. Through easyMarkets, traders may now trade volatility as a Contract for Difference (CFD), which provides direct exposure to the fast-moving index. CFDs on the CBOE Volatility Index are offered under the ticker symbol Fear (VXX). The…
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Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Futures Exchange has announced on the day after the U.S. election on Wednesday, November 9th that record volume was set in futures contracts on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX Index) traded in non-U.S. trading hours with an estimated 263,663 contracts changing hands. This record surpasses the previous single-day record of…
Read moreCBOE Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ: CBOE) today announced CBOE Futures Exchange received approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to be a Registered Market Operator (RMO) in Singapore. With this designation, CFE may now allow professional investors, accredited investors and expert investors, as defined under Singaporean law, to become CFE Trading Privilege Holders (TPHs) and…
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