{"id":47071,"date":"2016-10-21T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/trading\/winner-takes-worlds-biggest-equity-options-market\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T16:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:45:01","slug":"winner-takes-worlds-biggest-equity-options-market","status":"publish","type":[3762],"link":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/trading\/winner-takes-worlds-biggest-equity-options-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner takes it all in the world\u2019s biggest equity options market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"bbg-row-container\">\n    <style>section[data-anchor=row-6a07762bd88d7]::before {\n\t\t\t\tbackground-color: #eeeeee;\n\t\t\t}<\/style>\n    <section class=\"bbg-row bg--custom-color  bg--eeeeee text--black bbg-row--full-bg-bleed\" data-anchor='row-6a07762bd88d7'>\n        \n        \n        <div\n            class=\"bbg-row--content\"\n                    >\n            \n            <p><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-2\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    \n<\/div><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-8 bbg-column--valign-bottom\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    <p>    <ul class=\"bbg-categories_list\">\n                    <li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/category\/markets\/\" rel=\"category tag\">\n                    Markets\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n                    <li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/category\/trading\/\" rel=\"category tag\">\n                    Trading\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n<div\n    class=\"bbg-spacer\"\n        style=\"height: 24px !important\"\n    >\n<\/div>    <h1 class=\"bbg-metadata bbg-metadata--title\">Winner takes it all in the world\u2019s biggest equity options market<\/h1>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<div  class=\"bbg-row-container\">\n    <section class=\"bbg-row  text--black row-padding--top-compact row-padding--bottom-none bbg-row--full-bg-bleed\" data-anchor='row-6a07762bde698'>\n        \n        \n        <div\n            class=\"bbg-row--content\"\n                    >\n            \n            <p><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-2\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    \n<\/div><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-8\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    <p><div\n    class=\"bbg-spacer\"\n        style=\"height: 40px !important\"\n    >\n<\/div>    <p class=\"bbg-metadata bbg-metadata--date\">October 21, 2016<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<div  class=\"bbg-row-container\">\n    <section class=\"bbg-row  text--black row-padding--top-none bbg-row--full-bg-bleed\" data-anchor='row-6a07762be1174'>\n        \n        \n        <div\n            class=\"bbg-row--content\"\n                    >\n            \n            <p><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-2\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    \n<\/div><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-8\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    <p><div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<p><em>This article was written by Santanu Chakraborty. <em> It originally appeared in Bloomberg Brief Special Report |\u00a0The Future of India&#8217;s Markets.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s index options market, the biggest in the world, is a virtual monopoly.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<p>The National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. has a 99.6 percent share of trading in the derivatives. The 657 million index options contracts traded at NSE this year through August is higher than any other venue and the country\u2019s total outstrips any other nation, according to the World Federation of Exchanges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fps-addIndent\">The domestic popularity of index options, which allow traders to bet on the future of the underlying index, has helped NSE beat rivals from the U.S. and Europe. India\u2019s global supremacy is notable both for the fact that options trading in the country only started in 2001, and for just how dominant a single exchange is in what\u2019s theoretically a competitive market, with NSE battling BSE Ltd., Asia\u2019s oldest exchange. The former is widely seen as succeeding over its rivals thanks to better technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fps-addIndent\">The NSE\u2019s position is so dominant that \u201cthere is a de facto entry barrier for new exchanges,\u201d Manoj Nagpal, chief executive officer at Mumbai-based Outlook Asia Capital Pvt., said by phone. \u201cIt will be difficult for BSE to come back in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"fps-addIndent\">CBOE Holdings Inc. trails NSE with 286 million index options contracts traded, according to WFE. Deutsche Boerse AG unit Eurex is third, seeing volume of 264 million contracts through August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fps-addIndent\">One reason why options are so popular in India is the difficulty of shorting stocks. The country briefly banned short selling in the early 2000s, and while it\u2019s now allowed it\u2019s not as easy as elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fps-addIndent\">\u201cBeyond the top companies liquidity dries up, making it a shallow market and extremely difficult to short,\u201d Chakri Lokapriya, Mumbai-based managing director at TCG Advisory Services, which manages about $3 billion, said by phone. \u201cThat\u2019s why Indian investors have shifted more to futures and options as that allows them to short the index.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fps-addIndent\">Brokers in India also took to stock derivatives as they looked for alternatives to the \u201cbadla,\u201d the century-old system of carry-forward trades that was banned in July 2001. Badla, which allowed investors to borrow or lend money for trades resembling the forwards contract of today, often allowed rogue traders to rig the market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fps-addIndent\">\u201cLower capital requirement and no physical delivery attracts investors to Indian options,\u201d said Abhimanyu Sofat, vice president at brokerage India Infoline Ltd. in Mumbai. \u201cIndia has a long history of trading derivatives and speculation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"fps-header-level-3\"><strong>Long history<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"fps-addIndent\">Derivatives markets in India have existed since at least the start of futures trading at the Bombay Cotton Trade Association in 1875, the same year the BSE was formed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fps-addIndent\">Mumbai-based BSE hasn\u2019t managed to gain a foothold in options. In October 2011, the bourse started an incentives program to lure options brokers to its venue, a move that saw its market share increase to as much as 30 percent. But those gains fell away after the program ended in April.\u00a0BSE spokesman Yatin Padia declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fps-addIndent\">NSE\u2019s dominance in options is even greater than its success in the nation\u2019s $1.7 trillion stock market, where it claims 86 percent of the share of annual turnover. The combined value of trades in this segment at NSE and BSE has averaged 219 billion rupees ($3.3 billion) this year through Oct. 10, up from last year\u2019s mean of 207 billion rupees.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"wpb_content_element bbg-single-image align-center\">\n    <figure class=\"bbg-single-image__figure\" style=\"max-width:100%\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/image\/v1\/resize?width=auto&amp;type=webp&amp;url=https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/professional\/sites\/10\/imported\/professional\/sites\/4\/234880.png\" class=\"bbg-single-image__image attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"234880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/image\/v1\/resize?width=auto&amp;type=webp&amp;url=https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/professional\/sites\/10\/imported\/professional\/sites\/4\/234880.png 720w, https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/image\/v1\/resize?width=auto&amp;type=webp&amp;url=https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/professional\/sites\/10\/imported\/professional\/sites\/4\/234880.png 552w, https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/image\/v1\/resize?width=auto&amp;type=webp&amp;url=https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/professional\/sites\/10\/imported\/professional\/sites\/4\/234880.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>\n        \n            <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<p class=\"fps-addIndent\">There may be more to come, brokers said. Options trading has the potential to grow 10-fold over the next five years as the NSE adds to the 172 companies currently permitted for stock derivatives trading and introduces long-dated options on its indexes, according to Dimensions Consulting Pvt. The country\u2019s regulator last month permitted options trading in commodities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fps-addIndent\">\u201cThere are a few companies in this space and people still use options as an investment tool and not primarily to hedge portfolios,\u201d Ajay Srivastava, New Delhi-based managing director at Dimensions Consulting, said by phone. \u201cThe market is at a very nascent stage. 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