Jan 28, 2026 | MetroTrade Monthly
MetroTrade Monthly is a monthly newsletter from David Klotz, President of MetroTrade, with thoughts, updates, and reflections from around the company and industry. I wanted to write something substantial this month to get everyone back focused on the markets after...
Nov 25, 2025 | MetroTrade Monthly
Welcome to this month’s edition of MetroTrade Monthly, our monthly newsletter where MetroTrade President David Klotz shares his experiences and insights from the futures and derivates industry. I was able to attend four straight days of industry events recently,...
Oct 23, 2025 | MetroTrade Monthly
The precipitously downward market move on October 10th, combined with the year-long rally in gold and silver, got me thinking about manias, panics, and crashes, the role of October in that narrative, and their place in the derivatives industry. October has long held a...
Sep 18, 2025 | MetroTrade Monthly
With the 2025 NFL season recently kicking off, I thought the time was right to examine event contracts utilizing a somewhat modified 6 Ws and 1 H model. Given the complexity of this topic, I thought it would be best to try to simplify it as much as possible by using...
Aug 28, 2025 | MetroTrade Monthly
During my annual summer trip to the New Jersey shore, I couldn’t help but notice that my beach read, Den of Thieves by James Stewart, was somewhat non-typical. So for this month’s MTM, I thought it would be fun to create a “beach reading” list for traders. Reading may...
Jul 24, 2025 | MetroTrade Monthly
For those who missed it, the CFTC recently closed the comment period for public comments on 24/7 Trading[1] and the listing of Perpetual-style futures contracts[2]. But these are not the only changes looming in the industry, based on the pending applications at the...
