New Venues Set to Spur Growth in Options Trading Volumes

New York — Coming off a year of volume gains — clocking in an annual record of 3.61 billion contracts as of Dec. 31, 2009, according to the Options Industry Council (OIC) — the options trading industry is not slowing its pace. With two new electronic trading venues set to launch this year — the BATS options exchange and Chicago Board Options Exchange’s (CBOE’s) C2 platform — and the symbology initiative set for implementation next month, 2010 promises to be a good year for the asset class.

Market Industry Report – January 2010

High-Frequency Trading to Expand into New Asset Classes, Geographic Regions in 2010

New York — Although high-frequency trading has recently been marred by a sea of negative press and threatened by possible stringent regulation, experts and industry insiders agree that the practice is here to stay.

Market Industry News – December 2009

Fidessa Expands Latin American Connectivity

New York – As international investors begin to look for new revenue streams and as desire to invest overseas returns to cautious capitalists, competition in Latin American markets is set to ramp up, according to Martin Hakker, executive vice president for marketing for trading systems, connectivity and market data provider Fidessa Group.

Market Industry Report November 2009

Nobody’s ever going to get the genie of social media back in the bottle (good). Not too long ago the now mundane idea of streaming video – at real time speeds without the speed bumps – seemed revolutionary. User generated video is proliferating, as have sites and applications that are merging online with mobile media. [...]

Check out this intriguing video from Eric Qualman of Socialnomics.

And here’s Qualman’s list of “stats” seen in the video – with links to their sources.

Are you a believer or non-believer?

Social media is not a fad, but neither is traditional media going away any time soon. One is redefining the other. Being able to use each [...]