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Futures and futures options: contract specs, roll, term structure, and CTA strategies.
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Kraken Futures has launched a futures challenge with rewards of up to 5 million USDG, running from October 12 to December 10, 2026 (UTC).
Read originalKraken has launched the Pre-IPO Trading Challenge, open to eligible users, running from 00:00 UTC on October 6, 2026 to 23:59 UTC on November 6, 2026, with a total prize pool of 10,000 USDG.
Read originalAKShare v1.19.1 has been released, fixing issues with the SHFE and GFEX warehouse receipt daily report interfaces and optimizing the DCE warehouse receipt daily report anti-crawler error handling logic. Since 2025-11-18, SHFE has discontinued its original warehouse receipt daily report data files; this version adapts to the new web-based data source, supports multiple column order and merged cell formats, and applies separate parsing logic for old and new dates.
Read originalThe CFTC has issued a notice under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) proposing to extend the information collection requirement for off-exchange foreign currency transactions, assigned number 3038-0062, which originates from Part 5 of the CFTC Regulations under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA). The public may submit comments online via Regulations.gov, by mail, or in person by November 23, 2026. All comments must be submitted in English or accompanied by an English translation.
Read originalRob Carver has completed the final edits on his fifth trading book, "The Art And Science of Trading," scheduled for official publication on December 1 and now available for pre-order. Aimed at the mass market, this book serves as the unleveraged counterpart to his third book, "Leveraged Trading." It covers an introduction to trading delta-one instruments such as stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies, explains trading science concepts like backtesting and the Kelly Criterion, and explores the integration of art and science within a semi-automated trading framework.
Read originalBlock Scholes released its Week 35 crypto derivatives market review. Influenced by the U.S. Treasury's plan to expand Treasury repo operations and Trump pushing the Senate to pass the Clarity Act, BTC rose 20% over the past week, with its current price breaking through $80,000, and ETH rose 30%. The three major sentiment indicators in the derivatives market have repriced along with spot market movements. Options skew has turned positive, call option premiums have appeared in contracts with tenors of 7 days or more, funding rates remain positive, and the futures term structure is inverted.
Read originalThis article is the eighth installment in the Portfolio Optimization Series. The author proposes using the Euclidean distance of SR vectors across multiple trading rules for each instrument to determine whether to combine cross-instrument returns, calibrates 95% critical values for different historical lengths using random data, and then obtains pseudo-instruments through hierarchical merging. The author compares three approaches—full merging, algorithmic merging, and no merging—using in-sample backtests across 214 futures instruments. The results show inconsistent out-of-sample performance, with longer sample data favoring no merging. The author ultimately concludes that the algorithm is highly complex and the grouping results lack intuitive logic, so it will not be adopted for now, and future research will explore simpler merging rules.
Read originalvn.py 4.4.0 is officially released. This version adds notification functionality based on the WeChat iLink protocol, introduces the vnpy_questDB time-series database integration module, upgrades vnpy_esunny to the Esunny QD V9 API, and optimizes the vnpy.alpha data processing and backtesting workflow, while fixing multiple issues related to logging, data downloading, and algorithmic trade execution judgment.
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