Pending regulatory approval, NYSE Arca Options plans to launch mini-options contracts on SPDR® S&P 500® ETF (“SPY”), Apple, Inc. (AAPL), SPDR® Gold Trust (GLD), Google Inc. (GOOG), and Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN). These issues were selected because they are priced greater than $100 and are among the most actively traded issues with average daily volume (“ADV”) of at least 45,000 contracts over the previous three calendar months.
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What was not to love about China?
Well, I will give you a second to go brew a cup of loose leaf tea; also, if you missed yesterday’s missive, go here.
I know you have been dying to get the dirt about what went wrong on the China trip. So I will tell you. I missed our second annual volunteer day here in San Francisco at NYSE Arca Options. Bet you weren’t expecting that!
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Recently, I was part of a delegation to Shanghai and Shenzhen with the Options Industry Council (the educational arm of the Options Clearing Corporation). We were in China talking about the importance of educating investors in the use of listed, exchange traded options. We were also there to help take the mystery out of derivatives and listed options.
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For NYSE Amex Options, 2011 was the turning point after several years of hard work. In November 2011, the Exchange hit new market share highs based on both volume and number of transactions, continuing months of growth. Today NYSE Amex Options executes roughly 1 in 5 trades industry wide and, at the time of writing, topped the industry for a sixth straight month by this metric. However, this was not always the case.
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First Clearing selects NYSE Technologies for hosted transaction hub (NYX)
Fully hosted and managed connectivity and risk-management solution
NeoPhotonics sets price band for IPO (NeoPhotonics)
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