Alphacution’s Best of 2022
Of the nearly 50 original research pieces published to the Feed in 2022, Alphacution shares your picks for Best of the Year...
Guest Post: More on Year-End SPX Option Impacts
Guest Post: Derivatives specialist, Don Dale, adds his final thoughts to potential year-end market impacts caused by the mechanics of one of the most successful option overlay products in the market today; the $15 billion JP Morgan Hedged Equity Fund...
Robinhood’s Dirty Little Secret
Alphacution makes its case for where new market structure rules should, at the very least, be successful - as well as a clue for how our research influenced (and altered) Robinhood's business model...
Guest Post: Santa or Grinch? Impacts From The Next Big Option Trade
Guest Post: Derivatives specialist, Don Dale, joins the Feed to explain potential year-end market impacts caused by the mechanics of one of the most successful option overlay products in the market today; the $15 billion JP Morgan Hedged Equity Fund...
The Mother of All PFOF Charts – Q3 2022 Edition, Part II
Part II - Equity PFOF Volumes / Wholesaler Market Shares: Alphacution organizes and distills 33 months of payment for order flow (PFOF) data from 14 retail brokers and 13 wholesale market makers to place a wide-angle frame around the US Securities and Exchange Commission's upcoming proposals for a major equities market structure overhaul...
The Mother of All PFOF Charts – Q3 2022 Edition, Part I
Alphacution organizes and distills 33 months of payment for order flow (PFOF) data from 14 retail brokers and 13 wholesale market makers to place a wide-angle frame around the US Securities and Exchange Commission's upcoming proposals for a major equities market structure overhaul...
Wanted: A White Knight In Cryptoland
The dramatic implosion of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire is a huge and very fast moving story - with new revelations, about the details leading up to SBF's collapse and the contagion risks embedded in crypto markets as a result of that collapse, surfacing by the hour. Here, Alphacution assimilates a sample of the most thoughtful commentary on the current crypto saga as backdrop for its list of proprietary trading firms who represent possible "white knights"...
Simplex Trading Stumbles?
The Wall Street Journal reports that Simplex Trading may have - temporarily or permanently, we don't know - stopped accepting retail option orders. Alphacution provides some context around Simplex's option wholesaling business...
Alphacution Press: WSJ on Simplex’s Potentially Abusive Option Strategy
Alphacution provides data and analysis for The Wall Street Journal's Alexander Osipovich article, "High-Speed Trader Simplex Warned About Potentially Abusive Options Strategy."
Errors and “Exits”: A Teachable Moment From UBS Securities
Based on new data, there's more to the story about UBS Securities and its position in equity wholesaling...
