Zombie Roundabout: US Retail Stock Trading Returning to Pre-Pandemic Levels?
With retail participation in the US stock market down from its pandemic era peak, Alphacution wonders how far it could go...
Alphacution Press: Bloomberg on Citadel Securities’ Record 2021 Windfall
"The key to our business, it's a lot of research."Kenneth C. Griffin On March 15, 2022, Bloomberg publishes Katherine Doherty's sweeping - and, in many ways, unprecedented - article "Citadel Securities Opens Up After Record $7 Billion Windfall" based on several (some for the first time) interviews with top Citadel Securities executives, including Peng Zhao (CEO), Matt Culek (COO), Joe Mecane (Head of Execution Services), and Jamil Nazarali (Head of Business Development). Alphacution provided data, a quote, and contextual background for the article... This article is also printed in the March 21 edition of Bloomberg Businessweek...
Virtu and Corporate Bonds: 2021 Strategy Analysis
Based on recently reported data for year-end 2021, Alphacution updates its ongoing strategy analysis for leading wholesale market maker, Virtu Financial...
Ranking Robinhood’s Wholesale Market Makers
Alphacution's analysis and modeling of Robinhood's latest financial disclosures leads to a ranking of its wholesale market makers, along with a couple important side bars...
Susquehanna’s Multi-Billion Dollar and Optionless Fundamental Strategy
Alphacution expands its library of research on legendary option market maker Susquehanna International Group (SIG) with this introduction to affiliate Susquehanna Fundamental Investments (SFI)...
The Ken Griffin Show
Both sides of Ken Griffin's trading empire are operating at the pinnacle of performance. This is not a coincidence...
Alphacution Publishes “Simplex Trading, Unadjusted”
In this 67-page, 64-exhibit chart book, “Simplex Trading, Unadjusted,” Alphacution borrows the spotlight from the record-setting volumes in the US options market for 2021 and focuses it in on one of the key – yet, relatively little known – players in the space: option market maker, Simplex Trading, LLC. Taking some of its recent modeling upgrades for an initial spin, Alphacution performs its unique brand of visual display on public regulatory data to present what is likely to be an unprecedented review of such a secretive player operating in such a complex arena like Simplex.
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...
Virtu Americas: Lessons in Risk Disposal (Updated)
Alphacution delivers a new comparison of Virtu Americas and Citadel Securities to explore the objectives of risk warehousing and risk disposal...
Who’s Playing Championship Tetris? Gabe Plotkin, Stevie Cohen, or Ken Griffin?
A master class in risk management was performed during the peak of the GameStop meme stock frenzy. The question is: Who performed it?
