Gunjan Banerji

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So it can make money as volatility stays low.

But, you know, volatility can snap back pretty quickly.

And when it does, those short positions could be wiped out all of a sudden as well.

So it's definitely a risky trade.

Analysts and investors are definitely keeping an eye on interest rates.

But for now, what we've been hearing is that the strong corporate earnings season has played a bigger role in the stock market going higher than

as investors have started to pay more attention to that rather than some of the trade risks that have been out there.

Thank you.

WSJ Your Money Briefing · Financial Markets Hamstrung By Low Liquidity · 24 Apr 2018 podcast

It has, and we've seen it play out in the bond markets for quite some time.

But in recent years, we've also seen that development in options markets and most recently in futures markets.

In the U.S.

stock market, half of more than 8,500 listed companies trade less than 100,000 shares a day, a tiny sliver of what big stocks trade.

Exactly.

And a lot of people in the derivatives market were waiting for this bout of volatility.

That's an environment in which traders can make more money.

In the past few months, we've seen that play out even in S&P 500 futures and options, some of the most widely traded products in the entire market.

And investors often turn to those to hedge their portfolios or to make directional bets.

We're seeing the average size or the number of contracts available to trade at, at the best available buy or sell prices declining.

Well, higher volatility does make it more challenging for traders to price risk and to put out buy or sell quotes for different assets.

But really, investors say that this began almost a decade ago when post-financial crisis regulation prevented banks from trading for themselves.

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