Zero-Day Options Boom Is Turning Wall Street Trading On Its Head

  • While analysts debate, Wall Street pros forced to adjust fast
  • Market players divided over risks and opportunities of 0DTE
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David Reidy’s sure-fire options trade netted a steady 5% per year for half a decade — until last summer when gains began to peter out all of a sudden.

Reidy, who has been trading S&P 500 derivatives for 10 years, thinks he knows the proximate cause: The new boom on Wall Street in options that have zero days to expiration, known as 0DTE.