S&P 500 Short-Term Contracts See Trading Volume Jump
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Options that lets traders bet on short-term moves in U.S. stocks have never been more popular.
Contracts on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index expiring weekly have comprised 36 percent of total trading volume on the index this month, putting it on track for a record, based on data from CBOE Holdings Inc. A daily average of 309,000 contracts on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index that expire weekly have changed hands in the first four days of September, about 72 percent more than a year ago.