14 hours ago by Sean

Last September I was asked to give a presentation at the DerivaTech conference in London on the merits of derivative markets. My basic premise was that derivatives are (just) tools: they can be incredibly useful and are not intrinsically ‘good’ or ‘bad’ but rather their utility (or danger to society ...

The Park Paradigm - parkparadigm.com · Rank: 151,779 · 36 references

23 hours ago by greenfinancials

Nifty (January) future has turned into a discount of 6.30 points from a premium of 0.40 and around 12.78 lakh shares were reduced in open interest. Total open interest in the market was Rs42,710 crore and Rs4,081 crore were reduced in open interest. Nifty call option added 18.72 lakh shares in open ...

Stock Market - Intraday Calls - greenfinancials.wordpress.com

1 day ago by Андрей aka tamat

http://www.survivalblog.com/derivatives.html The global derivatives universe hums along nicely in times like these--in times like we've had since 1988. There are no nasty LTCM-type headlines. In such times market changes are gradual and incremental. For example, a derivatives trader makes a tidy pro ...

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1 day ago by Barry Ritholtz

The Big Picture - ritholtz.com/blog · Rank: 572 · 2481 references

1 day ago by BusinessAssurance.com Team

An event focused on the cutting-edge developments & thinking in the derivatives industry.

BusinessAssurance.com - businessassurance.com · 11 references

1 day ago by jasonku

What a day for me to start blogging about the Malaysian futures market. It was a very exciting and volatile day for the markets. The KLCI futures opened 6 points higher than yesterday’s close at 934 amid Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) positive close at 9015. Thereafter the market made a high of ...

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1 day ago by Barry Ritholtz

Excellent 3 part video series from the WSJ about the end of the modern era of American Investment Banking. You can stream all three parts here: End of Wall Street There are some errors of emphasis — the usual wrong-headed emphasis on Fannie/Freddie, the Clinton/Bush emphasis on home ownership — but ...

The Big Picture - ritholtz.com/blog · Rank: 572 · 2481 references

1 day ago by priti

SGX's derivatives market set a record for volumes traded for the third consecutive year since 2006, standing at almost 62 million contracts, up nearly 38 percent from 2007.

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1 day ago by Barry Ritholtz

End of Wall Street: What Happened In the first of this three-part series, Journal reporters explain how the housing bubble inflated and burst, and why easy money led to the collapse of Wall Street’s biggest financial institutions. 1/5/2009 End Of Wall Street: Why It Happened Chapter Two: What was go ...

The Big Picture - ritholtz.com/blog · Rank: 572 · 2481 references

2 days ago by The Professor

The WSJ published an editorial expressing deep skepticism of regulators’ rush to force the creation of a CDS clearinghouse. The editorial’s argument incorporates many elements I’ve raised repeatedly on SWP (and since I know several folks at the Journal read SWP, perhaps the blog contributed to their ...

Streetwise Professor - streetwiseprofessor.com · 20 references