{"id":200481,"date":"2024-12-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.eu\/campus\/uncategorized\/someone-is-buying-insurance\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T10:24:01","slug":"someone-is-buying-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.eu\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/options\/someone-is-buying-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone is Buying Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an article I penned for last week\u2019s Barron\u2019s, I asserted that investors shouldn\u2019t fight the tape, but instead insure against it.\u00a0 The current market environment is clearly \u201crisk-on\u201d, as we see major indices at or near all-time highs and an ever-present demand for speculative and often volatile stocks.\u00a0 Yet the evidence shows that someone has been buying insurance against a 10% correction in the S&amp;P 500 (SPX), even though \u2013 or perhaps 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volatilities reflect demand for the options in question, so it is clear that someone is demanding out-of-the-money puts.&nbsp; One month,10% below market options currently trade with a roughly 22 implied volatility while their at-money counterparts are around 10%.&nbsp;&nbsp; Since longer-term SPX options are more popular with institutions than retail investors, one must assume that there are institutions seeking to hedge their holdings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two caveats:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>These findings imply caution, not an imminent worry on the part of institutions.&nbsp; Those investors might be simply seeking protection for some of their holdings even as their net exposure is quite long.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Because we\u2019re looking at the relative relationship between two moving targets, the absolute level of implied volatility for those protective puts could be relatively low.&nbsp; And indeed it is:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 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