​Daily Bulletin: Thursday Feb. 19

The bears were out for Russian equity today, with one investor buying about 46,000 March 13 puts on the Market Vectors Russia ETF for .15c. Also in U.S. flow, Boardwalk Pipeline Partners saw large trading with an investors unwinding about 123,000 March 17 calls for .65c. In Europe, fund managers who trade cross-asset are considering going long cable and short FTSE 100 vol as the index increasingly becomes bid up. The UKX has also been a focus for investors for funding upside in the DAX, while trading UKX vs. DAX variance swaps has also been highlighted by sellside participants as an attractive trade. Meanwhile in Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission has delayed the start of public dissemination of transaction level trade reporting data for over-the-counter derivatives until July 2016, in a bid to develop rules to maintain anonymity of counterparties.