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| Jane Street, DRW Traders Made Billions as Virus Hit Markets |
Proprietary trading shops are notoriously secretive, so when markets went topsy-turvy in 2020, it was almost impossible to know how successful many firms were. It turns out: Very.
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| PETER HARRIGAN – OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT – PART TWO |
Peter Harrigan capped off his career as a floor trader on the CME and the Pacific Exchange in the middle of a bear market in 2002. Since then, he’s managed money, helped start up an AI company and traded cryptocurrencies, but he continues to speak fondly of his floor days, even the challenging ones.
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| | 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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| | | THE BACK OFFICE HEADACHES FROM BIG VOLUME AND HOW TO MANAGE THEM |
Daniel Carpenter is the head of sales at Meritsoft, a Cognizant company. John Lothian News interviewed Carpenter about the problems created by high-volume trading from banks, brokerages and other institutions, including how a company tracks the different fees it is paying or collecting from various trades.
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| | | LOOKING FOR ‘THE RIGHT TYPE OF DISRUPTION’ IN THE WILD WEST OF HEMP |
After a long career in exchange-traded derivatives, Jack Bouroudjian, chairman of the Global Smart Commodity Group, is doing an about-face, turning to blockchain technology and tokenized settlement to facilitate trading.
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| | | THE SMALL EXCHANGE SCORES A FIRST WITH CANNABIS FUTURES CONTRACT |
The Small Exchange is known for its bite-size futures products aimed at retail customers, including the Small U.S. Dollar, Small Stocks 75 and Small Precious Metals contracts. Its latest product, which was launched on Monday, fits that bill, but Small Cannabis Equity Index futures also make their mark in another way — as the first cannabis-related futures to trade in the U.S.
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