| JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK |
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| Reddit Crowd Bludgeons Melvin Capital in Warning to Industry |
The first sign of trouble for hedge fund wunderkind Gabe Plotkin came in late October: A poster on Reddit’s popular wallstreetbets forum was taking aim at his wildly successful investment firm.
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| MWE PRESENTS: THE HISTORY OF FINANCIAL FUTURES EPISODE: GAME CHANGERS, PART II |
Eleven years ago John Lothian News began work on a video series about the history of financial futures. We were motivated to get this history on video because of the death of Jack Wing, the CEO of The Chicago Corporation, who was an early supporter and proponent of the financial futures products. We wanted to preserve this history in video format before those that had created financial futures all disappeared.
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| 10 MOST CLICKED STORIES OF THE WEEK |
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| 4 MOST CLICKED MARKETSWIKI PAGES OF THE WEEK |
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| | This week on The Spread, GameStop stocks’ trading blocked, the E.U. opens U.S. CCPs to European markets, and more.
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| | | THE JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS DAILY UPDATE (WEEKLY ROUNDUP) – WEEK OF 1/25/2020 |
The John Lothian Daily Update is a podcast turning the daily JLN hits and takes comments, our original content and the stories and quips in the top box of First Read into a daily podcast.
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| | | FIA 2020 VOLUME REVIEW SHOWS GLOBAL GROWTH, GEOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRY |
While activity in futures and options was undeterred by the pandemic in 2020, logging record volume for a third year in a row, a closer look at data produced by the Futures Industry Association shows a shift in recent years in where that volume occurred and what was...
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| | | SEC COMMISSIONER PEIRCE ROLLS OUT WELCOME MAT FOR NEW CHAIRMAN |
“Even though there are unknowns, there are potential benefits,” is what SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce would like foreign regulators to keep in mind regarding cryptocurrency regulation.
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| | | OLIVIER RAEVEL – MARKETSWIKI EDUCATION OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT |
Olivier Raevel is the first trader from the International Petroleum Exchange, or IPE, to be interviewed for the JLN MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project. He made history as a founding member of ICE and recommended that ICE buy the IPE.
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