A key reason why I sold my $CBOE position earlier this year was my lack of faith in their European growth strategy.
Below I'll lay out why I'm so skeptical, and hopefully people smarter than me can chime in & tell me why i'm wrong.
Here we go:
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Europe is a different playing field entirely from the US. Nationalism plays a critical part in market share - France wants French stocks to trade in France, German in Germany, etc... Why would they let a US exchange dominate their market?
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LSE, Euronext & DB1 may be a complacent bunch, but I don't think they're leaving a 7x volume opportunity on the table. They have boards & public shareholders just like CBOE does. Why haven't they done what CBOE plans to do already?
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CBOE says market participants are frustrated with an opaque European structure. In the past, frustrated market participants have launched their own exchange to solve their own problems (ie ICE, Tradeweb, BrokerTec). Why aren't they doing this here?
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I think CBOE's entrance may grow the market somewhat, but will only serve to fragment liquidity even further. Even if they succeed in holistically changing European market structure, I don't want to stick around to find out how long it takes or how much it costs.
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What am I missing? Why will they succeed? Is their bet worth holding the stock to find out if it pays off? Thanks in advance for feedback/thesis pressure testing.
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Below are more thoughts on my frustration with
$CBOE & their recent earnings results for those interested:https://frontmonth.substack.com/p/cboe-q4-2020-earnings-review …Show this thread
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