By Matt Moran
This week I received inquiries about the trends in options volume.
The large-sized SPXW Weekly options have successfully seen volume growth over each the past seven years. Key points about SPXW Weekly options include –
VOLUME. Average daily volume (a.d.v.) in the first four months of 2017 was 500,964 contracts, (up 30% over the a.d.v. for the full year of 2016; see Exhibit 1 below);
MANY EXPIRATIONS. SPXW Weeklys options have expirations on ten upcoming dates in May[...]