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Institutional Options Trading

Evolving Tactics for a Dynamic Marketplace


February 13, 2008
New York City, Bayard's, One Hanover Square

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Agenda

8:30      Breakfast with Exhibitors

9:00      Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
            
State of the State of Institutional Option Trading
              
David Mortimer,
Chief Executive Officer
               3-D Markets
          

9:30      Buyside Panel
             Facing the Liquidity Challenge – View from the Buy-Side
               Moderator:
                
Andy Nybo,
Senior Analyst
                 Tabb Group
               Panelists:
                
Will Bartlett,
Head Trader
                 Parallax Fund
                
Elisa Aylward, Senior Trader
                 ClearBridge Advisors
                
Diane Garnick, Investment Strategist
                 Invesco


10:15    Providing Liquidity to a Demanding Marketplace:
             Risk/Reward and the Evolution of the Market Maker Role

               Moderator:
               
Andy Nybo,
Senior Analyst
                Tabb Group

               Panelists:
                Ross Moore, Chief Executive Officer
                LaBranche Structured Holdings LLC
               
Ed Haravon, Partner
                Spot Trading LLC
               
James Hyde, Trader, AGS Specialist & Vice Chairman
                American Stock Exchange


11:00     Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

11:15     Non-displayed Liquidity – Challenges and Advantages of
              Trading in the Dark

             
-Internalization, Reserve and Dark Pools
 
                Moderator:
                   David Easthope,
Senior Analyst
                   Celent

                 Panelists:
                  
Jeromee Johnson, President
                  
3-D Markets
                  
George Tull, Managing Member
                   ONPOINT Executions
                  
Jay Biancamano, Director, Corporate Strategy
                   Liquidnet
 

11:45    Slicing and Dicing Option Orders – Black Boxes,
             Algorithms and Ginsu Knives
            
-Option Algo’s, EMSs, other sell-side and buy-side tools
 
               Moderator:
                 
Brad Bailey,
Director, Business Development
                  Knight Capital Group Inc.

                Panelists:
                 
Brent Kochuba, Head of AES Options
                
 Credit Suisse
                  
Cord Mossberg, Director
                  
Torc Investments & Research
                 
JP Xenakis, Head of Electronic Listed Options
                  Goldman Sachs
                 
Tim Brennan, Managing Director, Automated Market Making
                  Merrill Lynch


12:15    Technology Panel
             The Derivatives Data Tsunami – Volumes,
             Throughput and Latenc
ies
                Moderator:
                
Thomas Jordan,
President & CEO
                 Jordan & Jordan

                Panelists:
                
Martin Koopman, President
                
Orc Software
                
John Coulter, Vice President
                 Vhayu Technologies
                
Frank Piasecki, President
                 ActivFinancial
                
Chris Church, Managing Director
                 BT Global Financial Services
                
Michael Stern, Founding Partner
                 Derivix


 
 1:00    Luncheon with Exhibitors
 

  2:00    How Evolving Portfolio Management is pushing
             Option Trading - The Demand Side of the Volume Equation
            
-Buy-Writes, Active Extension Strategies, Arbitrage Strategies
               Moderator:
                 Phil
Gocke,
Managing Director
                 OIC - Options Industry Council
               Panelists:
                
John Barun, President & CEO
                 Capital Markets Consulting
                
Sheldon Natenberg, Director of Education
                 Chicago Trading Company
                
Ravi Jain, Principal
                 Savitar Consulting


 
2:45    Best Execution and TCA – Certainty, Price and Size:
             Measuring Option Trading Performance
               Moderator:
                 Mark Longo, Founder
                 The OptionsInsider.com

                Panelists:
                
Rod Taylor,
Vice President
                 Quantam 5

                
John Wightkin, Founder and Consultant
                 QSG - Quantitative Services Group
                
Harry Temkin, Executive Vice President, Institutional
                    Investment Management and Trading
                 Reuters

  3:15    Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

  3:30    Regulatory Session
             How the Rules of the Game are Changing – Regulation
             Moving the Options Industry toward and Order-Driven
             Marketplace
               Moderator:
                
William Uchimoto, Partner; Chair, Securities Practice Group
                 Saul Ewing LLP
               Panelists:
                
Elizabeth King, Associate Director, Div. of Market Regulation
                 SEC
                
Richard Rudolph, Vice President & Counsel
                 PHLX
                
Doug Engmann, Senior EVP, Managing Director of Equities
                 Newedge USA, LLC
                
Scott Morris, Chief Executive Officer
                 BOX Options Exchange


  4:15    Competition, Fragmentation and Consolidation:
             How the Exchanges are Positioning Themselves
               Moderator: 
                
Ravi Manchi,
Principal
                 Westwater Corporation
         
 
              Panelists:
                
Ed Boyle,
Vice President and Director
                 NYSE/ARCA Options Exchange
                
Adam Nunes, Vice President

                
NASDAQ Transaction Services
                
Ed Provost, Executive Vice President
                 Chicago Board Options Exchange


  4:45    Conference Adjourns
 





 

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