Zero-Day Options (ODTE) Seen Driving Stock Market’s Intraday Swings

Zero-Day Options (ODTE) Seen Driving Stock Market’s Intraday Swings

The craze for fast-expiring options is ramping to unprecedented heights in a stock market that has lately been given to severe intraday moves. It’s probably not a coincidence. About 1.86 million so-called zero-day contracts — those tied to S&P 500 with a maturity less than 24 hours — changed hands on Thursday, making up a … Read more

Short Bets on US Stocks Hit $1 Trillion, Most Since April 2022

Short Bets on US Stocks Hit $1 Trillion, Most Since April 2022

Short sellers are ramping up bets against US stocks even as paper losses on the positions surpass $100 billion. Total US short interest, or the amount traders have spent betting against US equities, exceeded $1 trillion this month as the S&P 500 Index extended its advance, S3 Partners LLC data show. The tally reached the … Read more