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...
Citadel Securities, SIG: An Analysis of Single-Security vs Index Option Allocations
Alphacution compares the two largest players in US equity options - SIG affiliate, Susquehanna Securities and Citadel Securities - based on a 10-year period of allocations to single security options (SSOs) and equity index options, including indications of scale variance, key factor preferences, and strategy shifts...
Susquehanna Securities and the Hidden Arbitrage Strategy – Part II
In this Feed post, Alphacution updates an analysis of Susquehanna Securities - the primary risk-warehousing affiliate of legendary options powerhouse, Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and the place where the largest piece of SIG's global market making operation resides - originally published in Dec 2020. Now, more than 3 years later, Alphacution adds significant new color to that analysis - including 12 charts - and sets the stage for a much more nuanced understanding of the broader group of option market makers...
Ken Overtakes Jeff (Updated)
Citadel Securities overtakes Susquehanna Securities for year-end 2023 by this metric. Problem is, there's an asterisk. This Feed post is excerpted from research for Alphacution's long awaited case study on option market makers...
The Evolving Value of Edge (Silver and Premium Subscribers)
What is the value of trading edge? Using "revenue per employee" as a comparative indicator, Alphacution dives deeper than ever before into Virtu Financial's market making business. The results cause a dramatic re-ranking of Virtu in a list of 10 market makers - plus a few other fascinating findings...
The Evolving Value of Edge
What is the value of trading edge? Using "revenue per employee" as a comparative indicator, Alphacution dives deeper than ever before into Virtu Financial's market making business. The results cause a dramatic re-ranking of Virtu in a list of 10 market makers - plus a few other fascinating findings...
Reverse-Engineering Risk For Quant Trading Strategies
After years of development, Alphacution is on the verge of significant breakthroughs in research output given ongoing enhancements to its curated 13F dataset, including strategy sector bias. These are the first samples of those breakthroughs...
Retail Stock Traders: Return to 201X?
Are retail investors becoming "burned out" on stocks? Alphacution makes its case...
0DTE SWAG: Retail Share of Index Options
Alphacution found a few grains of new data and used them to estimate the retail share of US equity index volume...
Under 100 Milliseconds: G1X Enters The Arena…
Alphacution adds Susquehanna International Group (SIG) affiliate G1 Execution Services market center "ETMM" and 14 new charts to the ongoing comparison of execution speed/time that already includes Jane Street, Citadel Securities, and Virtu Financial. Again, with each step, this analysis yields new insights and increasing fascination...
