Journal of Banking & Finance Vol. 34 No. 10 2010
Does information drive trading in option strategies?
Abstract
We study trading in option strategies in the FTSE-100 index market. Trades in option strategies represent around 37% of the total number of trades and over 75% of the total trading volume in our sample. We find some evidence that order flow in volatility–sensitive option strategies contains information about future realized volatility. We do not find evidence that order flow in directionally–sensitive option strategies contains information about future returns. Overall, our evidence suggests that option strategies are used both by traders who possess non-public information about future volatility and by uninformed speculators who appear to follow unprofitable trend chasing strategies.
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.02.027
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 2370-2385
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref bibtex:phds-export.bib