The growth of exchange-traded products, including leveraged ETFs, has contributed to the market's fragility, with some ...
We are talking about market makers – entities tasked with creating liquidity in an exchange's order book. These entities are always on the opposite side of traders/investors and make money from the ...
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Contract-based methods — such as futures, options and forward contracts — remain far less common. The survey shows producers ...
Combining assets like Flow Traders and Virtu Financial with the S&P 500 breaks the rule of higher returns requiring higher volatility. Flow Traders and Virtu Financial tend to rise during market ...
The market’s recent rally seems mechanical rather than fundamental, driven by a temporary collapse in volatility just as storm clouds gather on the horizon. Implied volatility levels have fallen ...
The reaction across markets to Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts is often volatility. But on Wednesday, it really seemed like investors didn’t know what to make of the messaging from the central bank ...