Jane Street Makes Another Debut
Jane Street wedges its way into retail options. It's early. The numbers are small. But, they are a powerhouse with competitive advantages. Alphacution makes its case for what could happen here...
Robinhood Battles Schwab For This Top Spot
It appears that Schwab has completed its consolidation and integration of TD Ameritrade. Now this giant is going head to head with Robinhood for leadership in retail brokerage - and all while leaving just about all other competitors in the dust...
Comprehensive Retail Equity Option Review: Q2 2024
With a suite of 14 new charts, Alphacution presents an updated review of and key highlights for retail equity option trading - including overall market share, market share by broker, and market share by wholesale market maker - updated through June 2024...
Anatomy of a Zero-Sum Game
At the end of the day, how much risk is actually in US equity options? Alphacution distills and presents some never-seen-before numbers from an unprecedented era of this zero-sum game...
Chart of the Month: ETF Positions by Market Maker
Product selection is like the DNA of a trading strategy...
Coinbase: Tracking The Big Thaw
In anticipation of growth in (renewed) interest in cryptocurrencies, Alphacution updates some of its analysis of crypto exchange, Coinbase, as a way to monitor the progress of the thawing after Crypto Winter...
Estimating The Shorts Universe
Alphacution expands on the introduction of its Strategy Factor Library with a deeper dive into its method for estimating the potential universe of short stock and short ETF securities as a component of the core trading strategy for a large group of option market makers...
Introducing Alphacution’s Strategy Factor Library
Alphacution goes wider and deeper than ever before - as part of the research for our unexpectedly exhaustive case study on US equity option markets and option market makers - to compare trading entities based on at least 84 strategy factors from the simplest factors - like securities universe or number of positions by product class - to some of the most sophisticated comparisons that Alphacution has ever attempted. In this Feed post, we publish this list - the first version of our Strategy Factor Library - as well as a ranking of 19 option market making entities by our "shorts universe" factor...
Introducing Alphacution’s Strategy Factor Library
Alphacution goes wider and deeper than ever before - as part of the research for our unexpectedly exhaustive case study on US equity option markets and option market makers - to compare trading entities based on at least 84 strategy factors from the simplest factors - like securities universe or number of positions by product class - to some of the most sophisticated comparisons that Alphacution has ever attempted. In this Feed post, we publish this list - the first version of our Strategy Factor Library...
Concentration Risk: Shape of the Option Market
Alphacution begins to present its unique - and visually quantitative - perspective on the extreme level of concentration in the US equity derivatives market...
