The "daily Call" From Option Alpha: Options Trading | Stock Options | Stock Trading | Trading Online

Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again from Option Alpha and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we’re going to be talking about why daily expiration option contracts are coming. We’ve all heard about the big trend in weekly options contracts that have really been kind of growing in popularity, but the reality is that the next iteration from weekly contracts is going to be daily expiration contracts. Yes, contracts that open and/or expire on the exact same day. Now, this I think will be a big trading vehicle for a lot of people in the market and I’m interested to see how this plays out in the future because I think the market for options is going to continue to grow and I think that daily contracts actually do serve a very unique purpose which I’ll talk about here in a second. The reality is though, is that it’s already happening in the Euronext AEX index options. They did actually release a couple… I think it was a couple of months ago or even a couple of years ago. They released some daily index products