Flow Assist, a financial AI assistant powered by Connor Lapping's LAPPING.AI, just got a seat on the trading desk. The advanced assistant from flowassist is now wired directly into Equity Flow's order flow platform, turning a powerful order flow platform into a live conversation about

CME Group, the giant at the center of the global futures business, was forced to slam the brakes on trading after a cooling problem at one of its data centers knocked critical systems offline. The issue froze activity on its popular electronic currency platform and spilled into futures tied to

LAPPING.AI, the new all-in-one AI platform, has just launched one of its boldest features yet—and it completely reimagines how developers work with their servers. Called SSH MODE, it transforms your chat into a true engineering teammate that can securely log into your machine and run real commands, all

Alibaba has officially entered the global race for AI-powered wearables with the launch of its new Quark smart glasses in mainland China, a move that pushes the e-commerce giant deeper into consumer hardware and everyday AI use cases. Reuters Priced from 1,899 yuan (about $268), the Quark glasses are

Artificial intelligence is a very simple idea wrapped in a lot of big words. At its core, AI is just software that can learn patterns from data and then make predictions, decisions, or content without needing step by step instructions from a human. Instead of telling the computer exactly what

Former Citadel portfolio manager Neil Weller has quietly resurfaced at Eurasia Group, stepping into a senior role that sits right at the intersection of politics and markets. He has joined Ian Bremmer’s political risk shop in London as director of fixed income strategy, according to people familiar with the

The moment you stop asking “up or down” and start asking “how far” is the moment options get interesting. That is the entire point of an at-the-money straddle. When futures traders talk about option structures, an at-the-money straddle is about as pure a volatility play as you can put on.

The Dow has snapped out of its funk with the kind of move you feel on every trading floor in New York. The index has ripped higher by roughly six hundred points in a single session, part of a broader surge fueled by one idea that keeps gaining traction. Maybe

Wall Street is rolling into the holiday in a good mood. The Dow, the SPX500, and the Nasdaq have all stacked up four straight winning sessions, turning what started as a shaky November into a surprisingly strong Thanksgiving week. Big technology names helped flip the switch. After weeks of choppy

DeepSeek’s new reasoning model, DeepSeek R1, is crashing into the front of the line and acting like it belongs there. The system, tied to the GitHub repo deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1, has quickly turned into the model developers talk about when they want something that feels like a top shelf brain

Nvidia’s blockbuster earnings win lit a fire under the market early Thursday, sending the chipmaker up as much as 5% to an intraday high near 196 and helping drive a 718 point surge in the Dow Jones industrial average. That early optimism did not last. As the session wore

Here’s the hard truth: options are not built for you to get rich. They are built so the math wins and emotions lose. Most of the time, you are the emotion. On paper, options are a zero sum game. Every dollar you make on a contract is a dollar

Zero DTE options look like pure adrenaline. Same day expiry, tiny premiums, huge percentage moves if you catch the direction. That is exactly why most traders treat them like a lottery ticket and get handled by people who actually understand how the game is wired. Same day contracts live at

Dark pools sound shady. They are not illegal, they are just quiet. They exist so big players can move size without torching the price in public. If you understand that, you stop treating them like a conspiracy and start treating them like information. A dark pool is an off exchange

If price action is the headline, options flow is the leak before it hits the front page. The biggest money in the market uses options to express conviction, hedge risk, and quietly build positions. If you track that behavior, you are no longer trading alone. Options order flow is not

Fifty-year mortgages are the kind of idea that makes headlines because they sound like a cheat code. Cut the monthly payment, stretch the term, and suddenly ownership looks “affordable” again. But once you strip out the optics, you are really just trading time for price, and that trade has consequences

If you are buying high IV calls on AI stocks right now, you are not trading, you are paying someone else’s bonus. The house is dealing the cards, and you are walking in with your stack already marked. Names like Nvidia have turned into a religion. Every dip is

Most people walked into Nvidia earnings thinking it was an AI ATM. They walked out realizing they had just tipped the house. Into the close, implied volatility on NVDA was sitting around 130 percent. The at the money straddle was pricing in roughly a 14 dollar move either way. In