@factor_members 100% agree with you. Dec bid size is larger, as bid/offer is larger on the Dec contract (mostly market makers).
The current active contract (Oct) has smaller bid size, smaller bid/offer spread and larger contract volume
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@factor_members In this particular one, what would be your buy stop price and buy limit (or market?) price?
Similarly what would those 2 be on the sell stop?
From the Alpha portfolio, not sure whether makes sense to put on everything: some of the risk and hedges cancel off + probably wouldn’t to be doing SPX 4600, 15 Mar 24 puts at this current level + buying FXI after the mega rally? - hence the question (always interested in what current perspective look like and learning what I can from the shifts)
For new ETF creations, the asset manager would have to buy BTC in the market, as these are SPOT ETFs. They should be custodying it (otherwise probably theirs wouldn’t have ever gotten approved). There’s been studies that price movements / volumes have been elevated from 3-4 pm due to this.
Most options MMs would have access to native crypto OTC option markets (QCP, Paradigm etc), and also centralized option exchanges (Deribit)