n two days, futures on FANG stocks – you know – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google – will be traded on the Intercontinental Exchange as a FANG+ futures contract, merging the built-in leverage and liquidity of futures contracts with the seemingly endless promise of today’s five horsemen of techno-wonder.
Category: Education
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Oct
2017
How to Trade The VIX Flowchart
With seemingly everyone giving it a volatility investing a shot of late (Billions are in VIX futures-related ETFs), we thought a nifty flowchart of just how to proceed would be worthwhile.
13
Sep
2017
Infographic: The Futures Ecosystem
This Futures Ecosystem Map is designed to visualize the futures market landscape and highlight dominant and promising firms within the industry by how they’re utilized by market participants.
07
Sep
2017
Harvey, Irma, and the Future of Weather Volatility
When Harvey hit Texas, there was speculation about how crude oil and other energy markets would respond. As Irma heads towards Florida and the east coast line, Orange Juice, Cotton, and Lumber markets have all reacted. Here’s CNBC talking about the moves:
21
Aug
2017
What’s All the Fuss About Bitcoin Anyway?
Cryptology, decentralized ledger, theoretically tamper-proof? Before our imaginations run rampant, here’s our best attempt at explaining Bitcoin:
27
Jul
2017
Tips for Using Notional Funding
Understanding the concept of notional funding is helpful, but it’s even better to get practical tips for using it. If this is the first time you’re hearing the term, you can catch up in our previous post, here. For tips on using notional funding, we turn to Alan Zenk, President of CTA Services, who works […]
25
Jul
2017
Futures, FIA, and FCMs
It’s easy to see why most of the finance world love visualizations. As they say, a picture’s worth a thousand words. But it seems to be even more the case when talking stats, numbers, and facts to visualize. We tend to have our fun turning data about interest rates, crisis periods, Star Wars, and futures […]
17
Jul
2017
Rise of the Robots: The Quant Revolution
What we find interesting isn’t classifying the money flows into quant strategies, but discussing what people are doing in the quant space overall; who and how algorithms are being built; where the lines blur with FinTech; and the lineup of players in the space.
12
Jul
2017
Why Everyone’s Trading Volatility
The evidence keeps mounting that more and more investors are trading the VIX these days, now seeing the fear gauge as a tool to generate returns, not just an indicator. Whether we’re in peak VIX mode or not – it was high time we wrote a whitepaper on all the ins and outs of volatility trading via the VIX.
28
Jun
2017
Here’s How the Pros Trade Energy Markets
who wasn’t going all in on a rebound in energy prices? Who had their doubts about this continued rebound? Well, those well versed in the fundamentals of the energy markets surely had their doubts knowing what was going on with the supply side of the equation.
