Last post I mentioned a new Dutch community site for retail investors. It’s looking allright but is still seriously lacking critical mass. Anyway, the site is launched by online broker Binck/Alex and although they are evolving into a straight competitor of Euronext’s stock trading platform – the relationship between them is fine. In this columnRead more
We’ve been trading 2011 options for a while now, and it’s a good thing we’re finally moving on to the new year and leaving 2010 behind us. It wasn’t a great year for many firms, with most well-known casualties All Options and Alphabay. The first is seriously downsizing in both office space and headcount, and Alphabay was forced to pullRead more
The year of 2010 is basically over, everyone expects trading to be rather thin the last two weeks and shift their attention to Christmas presents and having drinks with brokers and clearing banks. This has been a difficult year for most of us, with a lack of trading hurting profits of several firms. There haveRead more
A couple of weeks after the launch of the new rich list, the Quote 500, the researchers must have realized their estimates for some folks must have been way to optimistic. Any derivative trader could have told them of course. The 2011 edition of the Quote 500 will probably see Allard Jakobs tumbling down theRead more
The news didn’t hit the wires as a big surprise. All Options is seriously cutting its headcount, and will retreat to their office at the Herengracht 433. They will leave the large trading floor at Beursplein 5. This trading floor needs to be filled with other traders by Euronext. After all, the daily opening ceremony ofRead more
