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23, April, 2026

How Options Flows Move Equity Markets: Insights from High-Quality Historical Data

In this analysis, we demonstrate how you can capture these interconnected market behaviours by combining two complementary datasets: SpiderRock's options volatility surface data to estimate dealer gamma positioning, and BMLL's high-frequency equity market data.

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21 April, 2026

Decoding Geopolitical Risk: A Level 3 Market Microstructure Analysis of Crude Oil at the Start of the Iran War

Geopolitical risk in financial markets is typically understood as a macro phenomenon - stress escalates, supply is threatened, prices spike. But the order book tells a different story. Using BMLL Level 3 data, containing every insert, cancel, and execution at every price level, we show tha...

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19 March, 2026

How Building an Equities Business Changed Our View of Liquidity

Liquidity isn’t just trading volume—it’s fragmented and often hidden across multiple venues. Building an equities business revealed that relying on traditional data gives an incomplete picture, so understanding liquidity requires a broader, more holistic view.

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11 September, 2024

€STR Wars Part III: Return of the €STR

Analysis of futures linked to the Euro short-term rate (€STR) contract, and the importance of understanding this liquidity in order to minimise the cost of trade, find liquidity and hedge efficiently.

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10 September, 2024

Normalisation: a dirty word or a differentiator for success?

Trading practitioners and quants need access to high quality data that captures all information, but importantly is also consistent and easy to use. Dr Elliot Banks takes a deeper look at what good data normalisation really means, and why it matters.

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4 September, 2024

How to Become a ‘Quant’ Overnight

In the Capital Markets world, it is generally accepted that it is necessary to have Python proficiency and access to certain third-party terminals to construct, identify and articulate vital deep market microstructure insights. But will this still be the case in the future?

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20 August, 2024

The Great Sell-Off: A Deeper Look at Wall Street’s Dramatic Fall

This August, America’s leading share indices tumbled in volatile trading just weeks after they scaled record highs, bringing about Wall Street’s worst day in almost two years. Nazed Mannan looked at what really took place.

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13 August, 2024

Looking into the Dark: Are you missing liquidity that’s addressable to you?

Optimising intraday trading - uncovering Dark and Addressable liquidity trends. For trading practitioners, it is essential to access both normalised Market States, and Trade Type fields, including categories such as Lit, Dark, and OTC to easily identify addressable versus non-addressable liquidity.

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31 May, 2024

Bringing Transparency to the Post Trade Landscape - FCA Changes One Month Later

The UK regulator (FCA) made a number of changes to post trade reporting requirements. We take a look at the impact this has had on liquidity discovery, and in particular, overall addressable liquidity.

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1 May, 2024

Tick Size: To Change Or Not To Change?

Tick size is critical to the price formation and liquidity provision process and rarely changes. But when it does, granular Level 3 data can shed light on the impact of tick size changes and what it means for market participants.

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3 April, 2024

€STR Wars: Attack of the Clones Part 2

As €STR continues to grow and gain market share, understanding the liquidity profile of competing €STR futures on ICE, CME and Eurex will be critical for market participants to trade better.
This article identifies the trends in trading volume for €STR futures in Q1 2024.

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20 March, 2024

Mind the Gap: Should you buy historical data from a real time data vendor?

In this article, Ben Collins, our Head of Sales (EMEA & APAC), explains why firms no longer need to compromise on a lower-quality historical data service with incomplete data.

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22 February, 2024

2023: Global Equity Trading Retrospective

Looking back over the past year in equity trading, it’s easy to forget the scale of transformations that took place. Whether it was volatility due to bank runs, federal reserve interest rate changes, or continued rise of ETFs, understanding the equity trading landscape has continued to be critical to all market participants. This blog examines volume trends between the US and Europe using BMLL Level 3 Data insights.

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2 February, 2024

Stamping it out: Understanding the impact of recent stamp duty changes on the Chinese equity market

This article explores how the recent reduction in stamp duty in China has affected market behaviour.

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23 January, 2024

Spot the Highs: Bitcoin ETFs 1 week later…

In this article, we look at the impact of Spot Bitcoin ETFs one week after their listing.

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