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April
As part of FOW's interest rates special Galen Stops examines the future role of SEFs amid delays in rulemaking, stringent margining requirements and innovation elsewhere.
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Mark Sebastian of Option Pit looks at why vega weighting is not just for the advanced traders and some simple tools that you can use to calculate vega on longer term options.
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A brief overview of the action at FOW's 3rd Annual Equity Options Conference in Amsterdam, 9 April 2013.
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February
In his new book current chairman of the supervisory board of Dutch regulator the AFM, George Möller, sets out his vision for ethics in the financial services industry.
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Jared Woodard and Brandon Henry evaluate different implied volatility skew formulas and expalin their practical uses in investor's portfolios.
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Hamish Raw, owner of www.binaryoptions.com, says that binary options will soon be mainstream financial instruments
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As a number of new exchanges prepare to launch in Africa William Mitting asks if Africa could finally realise its potential as a futures trading hub.
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Fidessa's Steve Grob looks at whether the industry will follow equities into a world of fragmented liquidity, smaller trade sizes and HFT.
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January
AMT Futures Limited's Anthony Hodges looks at whether market conditions will improve for CTAs after a difficult few years.
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Stonehenge Asset Management's Steven Michael on why trend following isn't over yet.
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Trayport's Crombie Cryan examines the key trends and movements in the European commodity markets during 2012.
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Galen Stops argues that despite the increasing standardisation of derivatives contracts regulatory changes are actually making these contracts harder to price.
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William Mitting looks back on a year when low interest rates, a scandal in the US and ongoing regulatory uncertainty combine ot create a perfect storm of volume declines. But despite this, he argues that there is cause to be optimistic for 2013.