...

...

...

...

All the feverish activity over the last several months for the debut of the new state-of-the-art NYSE Amex Options Trading Floor in the Blue Room can be summed up in two words: GO LIVE. March 2, 2009 is the day that trading goes live in the Blue Room. Since October 2008, when the Amex was acquired by NYSE Euronext, ’til March 2, the day the...

Your humble main blogger here has been distracted with other work lately, so apologies that this space has been so quiet. It’s not that there isn’t a ton of stuff going on. Here’s something that took place recently and is important in a couple of respects: NYSE Euronext’s equities trading successfully migrated onto the new...

As I’m sure you have seen by now, the NYSE has decided to temporarily suspend the $1 price minimum requirement and extend the temporary change in market cap minimum from $25M to $15M for listed companies. We received approval from the SEC yesterday and both will be in effect through June 2009. Why would we do this and more importantly why ...

On the new NYSE Amex Options exchange, there are more types of orders than you can shake a tablet pc at. All of the standard order types we know and love will be joined by a variety of order types unique to NYSE Euronext options markets (more about these in a later post!). Along with these unique order types, NYSE Amex will also be adopting the D...

In the economic downturn, financial advisers have been taken to task. But what, exactly, does your wealth manager owe you? And what can you never reasonably expect? ...

For many, the economy’s decline is a forced personal finance epiphany, a time to adjust to living on less. ...