HOUSTON (September 2, 2015) – OTC Global Holdings (OTCGH), the leading independent commodities interdealer broker, today announced an agreement to provide a real-time volatility surface for the natural gas options market via the Bloomberg Professional service.
The volatility surface utilizes the unrivaled liquidity provided by OTCGH’s constituent firms, which is captured within the broker’s proprietary EOXLive platform, to deliver the most sophisticated and accurate view of the natural gas options market intra-day. It will allow both brokers and individual traders to better understand where the market is trading and at what price.
“OTCGH is uniquely able to provide the richest market intelligence and transparency, thanks to the data housed within EOXLive, so that brokers and traders can better make decisions about the market,” said Javier Loya, chairman and chief executive officer of OTCGH.
“By offering this exclusive set of natural gas data on the Bloomberg Professional service, energy traders will benefit from the addition of this information into their real-time workflow in order to better manage their risk exposure across the forward curve,” said Carl Daucher, Global Head of Commodities for Bloomberg.
The agreement with Bloomberg highlights OTCGH’s sophisticated market data offering and strong market share in natural gas options markets. The OTCGH Natural Gas Implied Volatility Surfaces provide an independent, OTC market volatility data in addition to the intraday Natural Gas market implied volatility surfaces generated by Bloomberg every 15 minutes to support valuation, hedging and trading strategies and risk management in the market.
Users of the Bloomberg Professional service can type {OTCG} or {OVDV} to learn more about the offering.
About OTC Global Holdings
Formed in 2007, OTC Global Holdings has become the world’s largest independent institutional broker of commodities, covering financial and physical instruments from offices in Chicago, Geneva, Houston, New Jersey, London, Louisville and New York. The company is a leading liquidity provider on CBOT, ICE and NYMEX, ranking number one amongst its peers in numerous derivatives contracts across biofuels, emissions, commodity index products, crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), metals, petrochemicals and refined products, power, proppants, soft commodities, and weather derivatives. The company serves more than 450 institutional clients, including over 70 members of the Global Fortune 500, and transacts in hundreds of different commodity delivery points in Asia, Europe and the Americas. To learn more about the company, please visit www.otcgh.com or go to http://youtube/5h6AlVHsyRM.
About EOX Holdings LLC
EOX Holdings LLC (EOX) is registered as an Introducing Broker with the National Futures Association (NFA). EOX delivers unique and comprehensive market data, introducing broker (IB) services and the EOXLive platform. EOXLive provides order and trade management, confirms, reporting and clearing for thousands of trader, hedger and market maker accounts. EOXLive Active Markets delivers comprehensive on-screen price discovery while keeping the important human element in the trader and broker relationship. Leveraging the liquidity of over 15 brokerage shops across the commodity spectrum, EOXLive customers have transparency and execution capabilities so they can trade like never before. EOX Holdings LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of OTC Global Holdings. For more information or to receive free access to EOXLive, visit http://www.otcgh.com/eox or contact EOXLive via email: operations@eoxlive.com, AIM: eoxops or phone: 877-737- 8511.
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