Equity options
Options vanna positioning echoes 2024 vol spike, banks warn
Extreme negative position could exacerbate vol response in US equity selloff
Vol control indexes rewire for V-shaped rebounds
Dealers aim to fix sluggish performance of indexes that underpin $130 billion-a-year FIA market
BlackRock uses options to rewire AI bets
Counterparty Radar: Global Allocation Fund shifts from net short to net long derivatives as equity allocation falls
Middle East crisis revives demand for VKOs – with a twist
Equity investors balance fear and optimism by pairing 2022’s best hedge with lookback options
Two fund managers behind surge in ETF options
Counterparty Radar: New data shows notional for the instrument rivals that of equity index options
Iran selloff wipes out dispersion profits
Popular indexes down 5% in March, despite low realised correlation; some short bets see gains
Leveraged ETFs may have fuelled Kospi plunge
Record one-day drop in Korean equity markets follows months-long surge driven by leveraged bets
After market whipsaws, banks put new twist on QIS options
Variable strike options aim to catch recoveries after volatility spikes
QIS futures debut – but only simple ones for now
Goldman and Societe Generale kick-start Eurex market with equity baskets
Eurex looks to shine ‘more light’ on off-book liquidity
Block order book initiative to aid price discovery slated for later this year
How Optimal aims to shake up US retail options trading
New wholesaler has assembled a team of market-makers to compete with Citadel, IMC/Dash and Jane Street
Real money investors cash in as dispersion nears record levels
Implied spreads were elevated to start 2026. Realised levels have been “almost unprecedented”
S&P bull run drives interest in reset and lookback hedges
Variable strike put options proved popular alternative hedging format of 2025
One Trading brings 24/7 equity trading to Europe
Start-up exchange will launch perpetual futures Clob in Q1 after AFM nod
The options experts who think vol selling is a broken trade
Some say the equity volatility risk premium has vanished, others say it comes and goes
The curious case of the missing volatility risk premium
Volatility investors will need to work harder and smarter to capture value, says Capstone
Real money rides the hybrid options wave
Insurers follow hedge funds into exotic trades with equity-down, yields-down recession plays
Calamos’s $200m inflows trigger autocall ETF ‘frenzy’
First mover expands to US tech, Innovator ETFs plans rival listing on September 25
Hybrids go for gold
Spot gold surge sees investors eye dual digitals on new highs
BSE grows derivatives share despite market scrutiny
Indian regulator’s investigations have so far weighed more on the exchange’s national rival, though risks remain
Asia investors turn to inverse ETFs for hedging
US-based Direxion eyes Asia listings, while CSOP expands product range to single names