Arianne Adams at Webull Financial speaks to Trader TV at this year’s Options Industry Conference (OIC) in Palm Beach, Florida about how retail and institutional traders are using derivatives in response to ongoing market volatility, including the rise in shorter-dated equity options in trading strategies.
Adams also unpacks the divergence between retail and institutional directional flow; the growing sophistication of use in derivatives to express investment views among the retail trading community, and where she is seeing demand for exposure to crypto derivatives.
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