Option Markets: How (Real, Synthetic) Whales Wag The Dog…
US listed markets have become inverted, with option volumes consistently exceeding stock volumes in 2021. Alphacution presents a hypothesis about real and synthetic whales that influence markets via options - as well as evidence of market maker activity beneath it all...
SoftBank, Revisited
In the most dramatic example of regulatory back-filling that we have ever seen, Alphacution updates its story on SoftBank, formerly known as the Nasdaq Whale...
The Crypto 31: A List of Market Makers
Alphacution presents a comprehensive list of 31 market makers and liquidity providers engaged in cryptocurrency markets...
Pyth Network: (More Than) Crypto’s Consolidated Tape?
Pyth Network may be crypto's answer to a consolidated tape, but is it - could it be - more than that?
crypto.com Arena: A Naming Rights Deal Fit For La La Land
This was the starting price of the Staples Center naming rights deal...
Simplex Trading: When Disclosure is Not Transparency
Using systemic errors in 13F reports from options market maker, Simplex Trading, Alphacution provides a glimpse into its new modeling capabilities...
The Many Flavors of Mid-Frequency Strategies
Alphacution shares an excerpt of its unprecedented comparative analysis of leading mid-frequency strategy leaders, including Millennium Management, D. E. Shaw & Co., Two Sigma Investments, PDT Partners, GSA Capital Partners, Capital Fund Management, Cubist Systematic Strategies, WorldQuant, and Renaissance Technologies.
Robinhood Discovers The Limits of Limbic Hijacking
How much of the all-time high volumes in US option markets are due to the "Robinhood Effect"? Alphacution makes its case...
Alphacution Press: Wall Street Journal on Robinhood and the Options Boom
With help from Alphacution and others, The Wall Street Journal's Alexander Osipovich and Gunjan Banerji publish this Halloween treat. Or, was it a trick?
Tuning in on Mid-Frequency Strategies – SPAC Edition
Alphacution is constantly surveilling the landscape for clues of strategy capacity constraints and opportunities for strategy capacity expansion - and the impacts that those constraints and opportunities are likely to have throughout the capital markets ecosystem. Here's one finding that we found fascinating...
