Eurodollar futures and options trading also picked up, bolstering average daily volume for the company.
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Stocks trade on dozens of exchanges, automatic trading systems, dark pools and crossing networks these days, and trading in futures and options markets affects trading in the cash markets.
Some have moved from there into trading options, or into trading futures on the likes of CME Group.
Corzine became chief executive of MF Global, an international brokerage firm that specializes in futures, options and derivatives trading.
Speculative positions in U.S. gold futures and options as measured by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are just off the lowest levels seen since at least 2009 according to one survey of managed-money positions by the agency.
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The Futures Industry Association notes that trading volume in energy futures and options rose 13% last year.
And yet, within CBOT's own pits, trading in ag futures and options still hangs on--one of two such areas--amounting to 16% of the total volume on the exchange.
While stock and options trading was closed Monday, electronic futures trading was still open through the early morning and again in the evening.
After recently launching a dark options trading platform, Instinet is setting its sights on futures.
Even so, the potential for electronic bond trading may be less than in equities, futures and options.
The markets that do the sort of high volume, low margin trades that would be affected by an FTT are the foreign exchange (FX), futures, options and stock markets (with special reference to high frequency trading of the often demonised computer algorithm type).
Money managers tracked by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission this month cut their bullish bets on gold futures and options to the lowest level in more than four years.
In 1987, most stock trading was concentrated at the New York Stock Exchange, although futures and options were very much in the mix.
Instead, director James Allen Smith spent a year and a half filming Chicago's colorful floor traders as they swapped futures and options contracts and struggled to adapt to the new era of electronic and high-frequency trading.
Aron was Semgroup's biggest counterparty, trading both physical oil flowing through pipelines and paper oil, in the form of options and futures.
Oil trading consultant Lipow suspects that to lose so much money Semgroup must have ventured beyond mere futures contracts into options.
In America, meanwhile, the all-electronic Archipelago handles trading in stocks, exchange-traded funds and options, and plans to add corporate bonds and futures to its platform.
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