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SpiderRock nominated for “Best New Product” at 2020 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards
SpiderRock is pleased to announce that we, in partnership with QuantHouse, have been nominated for "Best New Product" at the 2020 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards. Our nomination is for SpiderRock's proprietary data and analytics feed that is now available at 20...
Join us for the Capstone Virtual Volatilty Summit, Sept. 21-23
SpiderRock is proud to sponsor the first ever Virtual Global Volatility Summit, happening September 21-23, 2020. The Volatility Summit will consist of a few hours over each of these days and the schedule will include panel discussions with managers and investors from...
Building a new options trading model?
What are the building blocks for a successful options trading model? Many investors who are getting started with options begin by analyzing historical data and end-of-day prices. Historical data is important for updating options trading models while access to deep,...
Meet our Data & Analytics Team at the Eagle Alpha Virtual Data Conference, September 8-10
The SpiderRock Data & Analytics Team will be attending the Eagle Alpha Virtual Data Conference on September 8-10, 2020. This Eagle Alpha conference will be the most comprehensive yet, with an invigorating agenda of timely topics such as alternative data uses in...
Learn how experience and expertise are important in an options data provider.
Provider Experience and Expertise is Key. A great options data partner is not solely defined by the strength of its product and service offering. Some options data providers rely on inexperienced or ill-equipped staff to manage or control costs and this method is...
2020 Security Traders Association of Chicago (STAC) Golf Outing
Thank you to the Security Traders Association of Chicago for hosting a fun day out at Ridgemoor Country Club for the 2020 STAC Classic Golf Outing. The SpiderRock team enjoyed playing the beautiful course, connecting with industry colleagues and competing in the...
Are Your Option Analytics Accurate?
Are Your Option Analytics Accurate? Simply having an eye on the numbers is not enough. To ensure data consistency, live market data and analytics should be integrated with the same data source and produced holistically. Combining historical data with live analytics,...
How Do You Evaluate Raw and Normalized Data Feeds?
How do you evaluate Raw and Normalized Option Feeds? Raw data feeds should generally include basic equity prices and underlying fundamental data direct from an exchange or the Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA) prices. A normalized feed is more manageable...
5 Fundamental Questions To Consider In Evaluating Your Options Data Partner
Options Data Needs & Considerations Options data is hard. Making decisions on investment priorities that involve options is based on a bedrock of solid analytics driven by market data and powerful, low-latency algorithms. Good options market data product can make...
QuantHouse and SpiderRock
We're proud to announce that our partnership with QuantHouse has won the WatersTechnology.com "Best Alliance or Partnership" category in the 2020 Sell-Side Technology Awards. Thank you, WatersTechnology! Click here to check out the winners in all...
Digital Week – Exploring Options Data & Analytics
SpiderRock's Data Team is excited to present at AI & Data Science in Trading Digital Week! Join Craig Iseli and Kasia Kobylarz on Monday, 6/22 as they outline a few key questions that data customers should be asking themselves before they look to acquire and...
Eagle Alpha’s Virtual Data Conference
We are excited to attend Eagle Alpha's Virtual Data Conference on May 19-22. This year's conference will be the biggest yet, with an invigorating agenda incorporating timely topics such as #alternativedata uses in global #Covid19 recovery. View the full agenda and...
Fear and Subdued Exuberance Regimes in March-Apr’20
We used CBOE end-of-data from January to beginning of April 2020, classified in two subsets based on SPX returns greater than 20 bps or lower than -20 bps and selected the corresponding returns in three macro factors, VIX, TYVIX and OVX…
Europe EQD 2020
SpiderRock is excited to sponsor Europe EQD in Barcelona! We look forward to meeting everyone at the conference next week. Stop by the SpiderRock booth to meet our team and explore how you…
Virtual Discovery Day 2020
We’re excited to participate in BattleFin Ensemble & Discovery Day Events‘ Virtual #DiscoveryDay this Thursday, April 16.
Join SpiderRock COO Craig Iseli, Beni Gradwohl
Volatility and COVID-19 Update
The #volatility of the stock market as the result of the #covid19 outbreak continues to subside. Trading costs in SPY ETF options appear to have recovered to near pre-outbreak levels. This recovery might indicate…
Equity Option Market Starting To Settle
As the equity option market started to settle down last week, market trading costs for SPY options came down even as volume dropped and #volatility stayed high.
The chart below shows SpiderRock’s view of the per contract trade cost for SPY in the three front months…