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A significant gauge of the level of options market data is messages per second (MPS), which is the number of messages (i.e., options trade and quote data) reported to OPRA by the options exchanges during any given second of a trading day. Data volume has increased dramatically since the early 1990s, as illustrated in the following table. [2] [3 ...
S&P Futures trade with a multiplier, sized to correspond to $250 per point per contract. If the S&P Futures are trading at 2,000, a single futures contract would have a market value of $500,000. For every 1 point the S&P 500 Index fluctuates, the S&P Futures contract will increase or decrease $250.
The writing of the call option provides extra income for an investor who is willing to forego some upside potential. The BXM Index is designed to show the hypothetical performance of a strategy in which an investor buys a portfolio of the S&P 500 stocks, and also sells (or writes) covered call options on the S&P 500 Index.
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The company is headquartered in Chicago, where it operates a trading floor for open outcry trading. [51] Cboe has two main proprietary index options products, options on the VIX Index, an index that measures expectations for stock market volatility [52] and options on SPX, the Standard & Poor's 500 index. [43]
The two tables below show the largest one-day changes between a given day's close and the close of the previous trading day in terms of points. [ 3 ] Largest daily point gains [ 2 ]
The original ("big") S&P contract was subsequently split 2:1, bringing it to 250 times the index. Hedge funds often prefer trading the E-mini over the big S&P since the older ("big") contract still uses the open outcry pit trading method, with its inherent delays, versus the all-electronic Globex system for the E-mini. The current average daily ...
On average, selling the at-the-money put option each month earned a premium of 1.65% of the notional value of the index, which averaged 19.8% per year. The income return of 19.8% exceeds the total return of 10.3%, as a portion of premiums are paid to insure losses of the put buyers.