{"id":4960,"date":"2024-02-20T09:31:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T07:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2024-02-20T09:31:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T07:31:36","slug":"us-traders-gamble-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4960","title":{"rendered":"US traders gamble options"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to recent data from Goldman Sachs, nearly half of all option trading volume on the S&amp;P 500 is accounted for by options that expire within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>This trend suggests that an increasing number of traders are engaging in &#8220;lottery-like&#8221; trades. The reason is that options are most volatile, with prices fluctuating significantly, especially on the day of expiration. On such days, movements of 1000% in just a few hours are not uncommon, and 200-300% movements are considered standard.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\">\n<div style=\"margin-right:10px;background:black;color:white;padding:2px; width:278px;float:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240220_112900_401.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240220_112900_401-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"attachment\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:.2em;text-align:left\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to recent data from Goldman Sachs, nearly half of all option trading volume on the S&amp;P 500 is accounted for by options that expire within 24 hours. This trend suggests that an increasing number of traders are engaging in &#8220;lottery-like&#8221; trades. The reason is that options are most volatile, with prices fluctuating significantly, especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}