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...
Alphacution found a few grains of new data and used them to estimate the retail share of US equity index volume...
Alphacution drops a few bars and a few charts framing IMC Financial Market's significant achievement in option wholesaling...
Crypto markets are a rapidly evolving landscape. Recent additions to the Pyth Network help Alphacution expand its roster of crypto market makers, liquidity providers and potential new entrants...
Alphacution solves one of a few key mysteries that have lingered for the past couple years. Turns out, the solution is indirectly tied to other players in Alphacution's fiercely competitive structural alpha zone...
Options powerhouse IMC Financial Markets scores some recent wins and, apparently, some losses, too. Alphacution shares its evidence...
Expanding its footprint in US equities, XTX Markets drops its first 605 report for March 2021. Alphacution uses this event to make some comparisons and offer some interpretations about the evolving US equity market structure...
“The best way to differentiate the good from the bad is to look at economic incentives. Companies that sell you a physical product or a subscription are far less likely to abuse your trust than a company with a free product that depends on monopolizing your attention.Robert McNamee, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe Amsterdam-based International Marketmakers Combination BV - more commonly known simply as IMC - is one of the most legendary proprietary option trading powerhouses in the world today; one of only three remaining independent prop firms - behind Optiver BV (1986) and Susquehanna International Group, LLP (1987) - founded in the 1980's during an era known for other pioneers like O'Connor & Associates, Hull Trading and Cooper Neff: IMC has a very successful Chicago-based unit representing roughly 40% of global headcount of ~800 known as IMC Chicago, LLC (d/b/a IMC Financial Markets) that was established on April 27, 2000 - originally under the name, Holland Trading House, LLC - to engage in proprietary trading in securities, [...]