Nearly $2.5 billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum options expire today, setting up a potentially volatile end to the month as traders juggle upside bets with deep downside insurance. On the surface, positioning appears constructive. But beneath the call-heavy skew lies a striking anomaly: one of the largest open interest clusters in Bitcoin sits far below…
By Laura Matthews NEW YORK (Reuters) -Options traders are pricing in about a $260 billion swing in Nvidia’s market value following the chipmaker’s second-quarter earnings expected on Wednesday, U.S. options market data showed. Nvidia options implied a roughly 6% swing for the shares in either direction following the results, which will be reported after markets…
By Bharath Rajeswaran (Reuters) -Trading in India’s weekly equity index options has slumped by a third since the country’s market regulator banned U.S. high-frequency trading giant Jane Street in the local market earlier this month, exchange data showed on Thursday. National Stock Exchange of India – the world’s largest derivatives exchange by number of contracts…