​Daily Bulletin: Thursday March 5

Mar 5, 2015

With the Chicago Board Options Exchange’s Risk Management Conference currently happening in sunny Carlsbad Calif. one of the biggest topics being discussed by the buyside seems to be constrained listed options liquidity. It seems liquidity in options outside the top 100 names is a little thin on the ground. In Europe, fund managers are seeing a spike in liquidity in biotech single stock options amid an increase in takeover announcements and merger agreements in the sector. One fund, for example, has increased its derivatives exposure to the sector in its special situations portfolio during the first two months of 2015. In U.S. listed flow, trading in mining and energy dominated, while Ford also some put trading.

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