What podcasts say about Tim McCourt
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What Tim McCourt has said on podcasts
24 statements · 15 positive · 2 negative · 7 neutral
The top ten companies comprise more than half of the S&P 500.
“more than half of the S&P 500 is made up of the top 10 names.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 4:20
Capital efficiency and around-the-clock access created an opportunity for single-stock futures.
“the ability of those individual and institutional traders wanting all the capital efficiencies, the around the clock access, it really was the perfect opportunity to introduce single stock futures to the marketplace.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 4:32
CME single-stock futures provide a simple way to gain exposure to individual stocks.
“single stock futures at CME Group are a very simple way to get that exposure in futures to the single names”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 7:59
Single-stock futures use capital more efficiently than owning individual shares.
“they are more capitally efficient than owning the individual stock.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 9:03
Most single-stock futures require 15–20% initial margin.
“the single stock future is a, most of them are 15%. to about 20% initial margin.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 9:27
Single-stock futures provide roughly five-to-six times exposure per dollar invested.
“So you're looking at five to six times the exposure for the capital that you have to outlay.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 9:33
Single-stock futures may outperform 2x or 3x leveraged ETFs as a capital-efficient tool.
“this is still going to be better than that 2x or 3x, maybe even index product that you can get.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 9:59
Single-stock futures provide symmetric participation in stock gains and losses.
“Here, it's futures. You participate equally upside and downside of the stock performance.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 10:35
Shorting single-stock futures avoids stock locate, borrow, and certain short-sale restrictions.
“there's no locate, there's no borrow, there's no things like reg show, rule 201, positive bid test for shorting the stock.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 11:07
Single-stock futures require 15% initial margin under exchange minimums.
“For single stock futures, that's 15%.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 12:27
Futures efficiently provide market exposure without fully paying for the underlying asset.
“It's a highly effective and efficient way to manage your risk or gain exposure to the markets versus fully paying for that.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 13:27
CME single-stock futures trade throughout the week outside maintenance hours.
“you can trade it throughout the week.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 13:59
CME single-stock futures are available 23 hours daily from Sunday through Friday.
“we're up 23 hours Sunday night through Friday night.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 14:13
CME Group’s futures industry has operated 23.5 hours daily for decades.
“The futures industry at CME Group, we've been 23.5 for decades.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 14:27
CME Group has more than 130 retail partners connected to its platform.
“we have over 130 retail partners that are associated or effectively connected to CME Group.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 16:02
CME offers standard-size single-stock futures on 55 U.S. stocks.
“And that's on 55 names.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 17:15
CME offers micro single-stock futures on 22 stocks.
“And those are on 22.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 17:27
CME single-stock futures use a quarterly expiration cycle with two contracts listed.
“for single stock futures, we will have two contracts in market on the quarterly cycle.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 18:36
Long futures traders are liable for the underlying stock’s downside performance.
“you are liable for that downside performance.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 21:03
CME provides theoretical pricing calculators for single-stock futures.
“we have some theoretical pricing calculators on our websites”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 22:44
Single-stock futures generally lack the implied-volatility component of single-name options.
“they don't necessarily have that implied volatility aspect that you would see on a single name option.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 24:38
Futures pricing depends on spot price, interest rates, dividends, financing, and time to expiration.
“it's really about what is the value of that stock today? And then where are interest rates? And how will that value grow at that interest rate over the time period?”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 24:52
CME single-stock futures traded over 350,000 contracts worth $3–3.5 billion after two months.
“we actually have traded over 350,000. contracts so far, which is, you know, between three, three and a half billion dollars of value since launching these just about two months ago.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 26:58
Trading activity varies across CME’s 55 eligible single-stock names.
“it does sort of like mix and match amongst the 55 names we have.”
Open the episode · Talk Your Book: Investing in Single Stock FuturesListen at 28:00
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