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PeakBot opened the markets! 🔔
@UsePeakBot connects retail traders with easy-to-use automated trading technology they can trust, along with a marketplace of over 50 strategy providers and tools. PeakBot celebrates their growth, their partners and the bridge they have built to level the playing field for retail traders across the globe.
Crypto derivatives are moving into the regulated mainstream.
Following the 2024 launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs, the CFTC approved Kalshi's Bitcoin perpetual futures contract on May 29, 2026 — the first time this once-exotic crypto product has landed on a regulated U.S. exchange. CFTC Chair Selig has signaled that approvals for other asset classes are likely to follow, and in a recent interview he compared perpetual futures to "zero day options." That comparison has prompted a wave of investor questions about how perpetual futures ("perpetuals") stack up against zero-day-to-expiration (0DTE) options.
Cboe's latest Volatility Insights report argues the comparison, while understandable on the surface, breaks down once you look past leverage and into payoff structure, risk, and actual investor behavior.
▶️ Download the paper to read the research: bit.ly/4kfhacI
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Did you know nearly 1.9 million FLEX options contracts are traded every day? That's up from just 134,000 contracts per day in 2018.
In the latest episode of The Long and Short of It, Alan Roldan of WallachBeth Capital and Bill O'Keefe, Director of Derivatives Sales at Cboe, discuss what's driving the rapid growth of the FLEX options market.
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The World Federation of Exchanges closed the markets! 🔔
@TheWFE is the global industry group for exchanges and clearing houses (CCPs) around the world. The WFE represents more than 250 market infrastructures, from those operating in the largest financial centers to those serving frontier markets and organizes the Ring the Bell for Financial Literacy initiative in support of investor education and financial literacy.
Why It Matters
The VIX Index may give investors a way to gauge uncertainty even when prices look calm on the surface.
Monitoring it alongside equity exposure may support a more complete picture of the risk environment.
Understanding what it measures, and what it doesn’t, is the foundation for everything in this volatility series.
Gigastar opened the markets! 🔔
@GigaStar_ is the Chicago-based startup where individuals can invest in and trade shares of YouTube Creators’ future revenue.
GigaStar is ringing the Cboe Opening Bell to celebrate having built the first capital markets for the Creator Economy, right here in its hometown.
BondBloxx closed the markets! 🔔
@bondbloxxetf, the first ETF issuer dedicated exclusively to fixed income, offers investors a comprehensive suite of bond ETFs spanning U.S. Treasuries, investment grade and high yield corporates, emerging markets, tax-aware strategies, and private credit.
BondBloxx is ringing the Cboe closing bell today to celebrate the fourth anniversary of XEMD, its emerging markets bond ETF, which recently reached $1 billion in assets under management.
In today's Macro Volatility Digest:
🔹 Implied volatilities rose across asset classes last week as oil prices gained on rising geopolitical tensions and investors pulled back from Tech stocks ahead of key earnings.
🔹 While the VIX® Index ended last week mostly unch’d at 19.5%, it masked significant sector rotation underneath the index surface (e.g. Comm Svc down 6.2% vs. Energy up 1.6%).
🔹 Sentiment in SPX options swung sharply last week as the initial market rebound saw investors chasing with upside calls before the sell-off at the end of the week led to renewed hedging demand.
Get a sneak peek below, and download the full report: bit.ly/48gDhIr
Sentiment in SPX options swung sharply last week as the initial market rebound saw investors chasing with upside calls before the sell-off at the end of the week led to renewed hedging demand.
SPX downside convexity ended the week in the 99th percentile high.
Download the full report: bit.ly/4yNwIZ1
