CME Group to Launch World’s First NHL Futures Based on CME FutureSports Performance Indexes on September 28 https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/641381/ #ChicagoMercantileExchange #CMEFSPIHockeyFutures #CMEGroup #DerivativesMarket #FuturesContracts #FutureSports #Hockey #HockeyFutures #MarketParticipants #NationalHockeyLeague #NHL #PerformanceStatistics #RegulatedMarkets
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Ahead of new tariffs, Canadian dollar overtook yen as most heavily shorted currency
By Fergal Smith TORONTO, July 23 (Reuters) – Speculators raised their bearish bets on the Canadian dollar to…
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/87716/ LSEG Unveils ‘LSE24’ for Overnight Trading Launch in Early 2027; 24-Hour Trading Expands Across US and Europe, Leaving Tokyo Exchange on the Sidelines #CboeGlobalMarkets #ChicagoMercantileExchange(CME) #ExchangeTradedProducts(ETPs) #FinancialTimes #JuliaHoggett #LondonStockExchangeGroup #LondonStockExchangeGroup(LSEG) #LSE24 #LSEG #nasdaq #TokyoStockExchange
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CME sues US CFTC over letting Kalshi, Coinbase offer perpetual futures https://www.byteseu.com/2119212/ #CFTC #ChicagoMercantileExchange #CMEGroup #Coinbase #Crypto #CryptoCurrency #FinancialMarkets #FuturesExchanges #IntercontinentalExchange #Kalshi #MichaelSelig #PerpetualFutures #PerpetualContracts #PredictionMarkets #USCommodityFuturesTradingCommission
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Oil prices rise anew after a US-Iran standoff in the Strait of Hormuz strands tankers
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices rose in early trading Sunday as a standoff between Iran and the…
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/73619/ Oil prices rise anew after a US-Iran standoff in the Strait of Hormuz strands tankers #ChicagoMercantileExchange #CrudePrices #Iran #OilPrices #PersianGulf #PresidentDonaldTrump #PriceOfBrentCrude #StraitOfHormuz
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Who is Scott Nations?
Achieving financial independence requires more than just picking the right stocks; it requires a deep understanding of market history and the psychological hurdles that every investor faces. One of the most insightful voices in this field today is Scott Nations.
As a veteran trader, financial engineer, and frequent CNBC contributor (as of 2026), Nations has dedicated his career to demystifying the complexities of the stock market for the everyday investor.
For those dedicated to learning more about money, his work provides a crucial bridge between technical market mechanics and the human emotions that drive price action.
A Career Built on Volatility
Scott Nations is the president and Chief Investment Officer of Nations Indexes, a firm that specializes in developing volatility and option-enhanced indexes. Before founding his own firm, he spent over two decades as a floor trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. This “in the trenches” experience gave him a unique vantage point on how markets behave during periods of extreme stress.
His technical background is extensive. He is the creator of several market indicators, including VolDex, which measures implied volatility for the S&P 500. While his early books, such as Options Math for Traders and The Complete Book of Option Spreads and Combinations, were geared toward professional traders, his more recent work has pivoted toward helping the general public navigate the “mental game” of investing.
The floor trader’s real lesson: size beats direction
On the CME floor, Nations watched a specific kind of disaster repeat for twenty years: traders who were right about the direction of the market and wrong about the size of their position. Being right is cheap. Surviving is expensive. A margin call does not care about your thesis, and the floor teaches that lesson faster than any textbook. That is the experience a floor trader carries into everything he writes afterward, and it is the one part of his background no credential can substitute for.
The practical version for an individual investor is the one Nations keeps making between the history and the options math. Crash protection is never the forecast. It is the position sizing. You cannot predict the catalyst, so the only decision that matters is how much a wrong call costs you. Size the position so that a bad week is a lesson instead of a liquidation, and most of the crash history in the section above becomes something you read about rather than something that happens to you.
Learning from Financial History
One of the best ways to prepare for the future is to study the past. In his book, A History of the United States in Five Crashes, Nations examines the most significant market meltdowns in American history: 1907, 1929, 1987, 2008, and the 2010 Flash Crash.
He argues that while the catalysts for these crashes differ, they often share a common thread: a poorly understood financial “contraption” or a new tool that introduces excessive leverage into the system. By reading books on money that focus on these historical patterns, investors can learn to recognize when the market is becoming overextended. His research reinforces the importance of a long-term perspective and the wisdom of maintaining a steady nest egg in the S&P 500 rather than chasing the latest speculative trend.
Best selling money books on Amazon
Mastering the Anxious Investor
Perhaps his most relevant work for those managing their own portfolios is The Anxious Investor: Mastering the Mental Game of Investing. In this book, Nations leans into behavioral psychology to explain why humans are naturally “ill-suited” to making wise investment decisions. He identifies several common cognitive biases, such as:
- Overconfidence: The belief that our personal hunches are better than market data.
- The Disposition Effect: The tendency to sell winning investments too early while holding onto losers for too long.
- Status Quo Bias: A resistance to changing a portfolio even when the original investment thesis no longer holds.
Nations emphasizes that understanding these biases is just as important as hiring a financial advisor or using the latest budgeting apps.
Why Nations matters to the retail options boom
There is a second reason to know who Scott Nations is in 2026. The audience for options education has exploded. 2025 was the sixth consecutive record year for U.S. options volume, with roughly 61 million contracts traded per day, and through the second quarter of 2026 daily volume was running near 71 million, on pace for a seventh straight record. Most of that growth is retail traders, many of them young, many of them learning from social media rather than from someone who ever stood on a trading floor.
Nations is one of the few people writing about options for a general audience who actually has the credentials to do it: two decades on the CME floor, a portfolio of volatility indexes, and books that teach the math honestly instead of promising easy income. If the post above links his books or his Nations Indexes work, read them as the curriculum, not the tip sheet. His value is not a strategy you can copy. It is a way of thinking about risk that most retail options content skips entirely.
Practical Steps for Your Journey
https://youtu.be/yTMlUnS7kSQ?si=_QGQq-XFPZeZ_Wxk
The overarching message from Scott Nations is one of disciplined, evidence-based investing. He advocates for mastering one’s fear and staying the course when the market gets “choppy.” For many, this means automating savings, utilizing high-yield savings accounts for short-term needs, and staying invested in broad-market indexes.
By combining a frugal lifestyle with a solid education in financial history, you can move past the anxiety of market fluctuations and focus on the long-term growth of your wealth.
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Oil prices soar above $100 a barrel as Iran conflict impacts supplies
Oil prices eclipsed $114 (around €98) per barrel for the first time since 2022 on Monday as the…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Iran #Brentcrude #ChicagoMercantileExchange #oilprices #WestTexasIntermediate
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Silver surge outpaces gold on global squeeze, rising interest rate-cut hopes
Silver jumped more than 2 per cent to a record high, with traders placing speculative bets on the…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AhmadAssiri #ANZGroupHoldings #Australia #ChicagoMercantileExchange #ChinaSilverGroup #Comex #DanielHynes #HongKong #IL #Israel #London #october #PepperstoneGroup #SHANGHAIFUTURESEXCHANGE #silver #SilverMines #SunSilver #USFederalReserve #USGEOLOGICALSURVEY
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CME Group Shares Steady After Hours-Long Trading Outage
CME Group headquarters in Chicago. (Bloomberg) — Shares in CME Group Inc. were mostly steady Friday after a…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Bloomberg #ChicagoMercantileExchange #CMEGroup #commoditiestrading #GlobexFutures #Headlines #marketparticipants #NasdaqInc #Optionsmarkets #TopStories
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Solana CME Futures Fell Short of BTC and ETH Debuts, but There's a Catch - If you blinked you may have missed it: Solana's SOL futures started trading on Mon... - https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/03/18/solana-cme-futures-fall-short-of-btc-and-eth-debut-but-there-s-a-catch #chicagomercantileexchange #k33research #markets #futures #solana
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XRP ETF: CME Group Adds XRP Reference Rate, ETF on Horizon? - The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has announced the launch of new reference rates and... - https://coingape.com/xrp-etf-cme-group-adds-xrp-reference-rate-etf-on-horizon/ #chicagomercantileexchange #24/7cryptocurrencynews #cmegroup #xrpnews #xrp
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CNBC Fast Money trader says Solana ETFs ’probably’ next, sparking debate - CNBC contributor and crypto investor Brian Kelly said Solana is one of t... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/cnbc-guest-sees-solana-etfs-next-sparking-debate #chicagomercantileexchange #cryptocurrencyfutures #franklintempleton #spotsolanaetf #jamesseyffart #adamcochran #briankelly #nategeraci #bitwise #cnbc
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CME To Debut Bitcoin Trading Amid Growing Wall Street Interest - The recent report regarding the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to introduce Bitcoin tr... - https://coingape.com/cme-launches-bitcoin-trading-growing-crypto-interest/ #chicagomercantileexchange #24/7cryptocurrencynews #bitcoin(btc)price #cmebitcoinfutures #bitcoinnews #cme
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#MichaelAndTeene-131:
Considering #US Ambassador Donald Blome's professional background as a small-time #Chicago lawyer, can he legally confirm/deny whether anybody from the #ChicagoMercantileExchange is/was linked to the #Pakistan #Wheat #Import #Scandal?
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Bitcoin Futures Open Interest on CME Hit $5 Billion - Source: Adobe Stock
Bitcoin futures open interest on the Chicago Mercantile Exchan... - https://cryptonews.com/news/bitcoin-futures-open-interest-on-cme-hit-5-billion.htm #chicagomercantileexchange #bitcoinfutures #bitcoinnews #news -
The Tyee: To Fix Agriculture, Eat More Farmhouse Cheese https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/10/19/Eat-More-Farmhouse-Cheese/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #TheLostSupper:SearchingfortheFutureofFoodintheFlavorsofthePast #CharlesMartellGloucestercheese #DanishchemistChristianHansen #JesseWilliamscheesefactory #NorthernDairyShorthorncows #ChicagoMercantileExchange #LondonandGreenwichRailway #MilkMarketingBoardBritain #ApocalypseCowdocumentary #ReinventingtheWheelbook #dairyindustrialcomplex
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Bitcoin CME Front-Month Futures Reach Deepest Discount Ever Recorded
https://www.newsbtc.com/news/bitcoin/bitcoin-cme-front-month-futures-reach-deepest-discount-ever-recorded/
#ProSharesBitcoinStrategyETF #ChicagoMercantileExchange #bitcoinfuturescontract #BitcoinFuturesETF #TheWeeklyUpdate #arcaneresearch #bitcoinfutures #Derivatives #MarketWrap #CMEfutures #discount #Bitcoin #NASDAQ #S&P500 #BITO #CME -
FTX.US Proposal for Direct Clearing to Be Considered by CFTC Roundtable
https://beincrypto.com/ftx-us-proposal-for-direct-clearing-to-be-considered-by-cftc/
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Amid Bitcoin Uncertainty, ‘the Smart Money Knows That Crypto Is Not Ready’ - Paul Chou, a former Goldman Sachs employee, set up LedgerX, a crytocurrency exchange in Manhattan,... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/technology/cryptocurrency-bust-wall-street.html?partner=rss&emc=rss #regulationandderegulationofindustry #intercontinentalexchangeinc #chicagomercantileexchange #goldmansachsgroupinc #newyorkstockexchange #robberiesandthefts #bitcoin(currency) #virtualcurrency #dorseyjack