In an effort to help the ailing U.S. economy, the Fed has short-term rates at historically low levels. Options on eurodollar futures offer insight into where we go from here....

Options and the Pareto set

May 24, 2010

Multiple criteria are typically used to analyze potential individual equity option trades. In this first of two parts, we introduce the most efficient approach for selecting these criteria: the Pareto-optimality....

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Trader Profiles

Doherty: Everything neutral except performance

September 16, 2009

Robert Doherty, founder of Doherty Advisors LLC in New York, has more than 20 years of experience managing money, most of it on the proprietary trading side of large institutions......

Clarke: Consistently profitable

February 13, 2008

Clarke Capital Management (CCM) has produced consistently solid returns through its numerous trading programs for more than a decade. While trend following programs have struggled at times in recent...

Khan Noorpuri: Perfecting option writing

August 21, 2007

Ansbacher Investment management (AIM) was already one of the oldest and most successful option writing commodity trading advisors in 2002, so there was some risk involved when founding principal Max...

'Bill Stevens: Everythings relative

August 16, 2006

“I’m much more interested in the relationship of the options to the futures or the options to each other or one skew to another skew, than I am absolute values,” he says. “That’s where we try to...

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eNewsletters » Futures Mid-Month

Top Brokers

By Customer Segregated Funds
(Data in millions as of March 2010)

1	GOLDMAN SACHS	$ 19,129
2	NEWEDGE	$ 18,532
3	JP MORGAN	$ 14,298
4	DEUTSCHE BANK	$ 13,022
5	CITIGROUP GLOBAL	$ 9,887
6	UBS SECURITIES	$ 9,882
7	MERRILL LYNCH	$ 9,845
8	MF GLOBAL INC	$ 7,382
9	MORGAN STANLEY	$ 5,197
10	CREDIT SUISSE.	$ 4,333