“You don’t have that same kind of pent-up demand,” said Kieran Diamond, a London-based derivatives strategist at UBS Group AG. “And the S&P just has a very strong track record as the main global liquidity pool for equity volatility.”
“There’s been a clear trend globally in investors showing greater preference for shorter-dated options,” Bonouvrie said by email. “Daily options allow for the hedging of very specific risks – such as ECB events – that couldn’t be hedged with the same granularity before.”