Options Trading Guides
Options do not only matter to the people who trade them. Market makers hedge the options they sell in the underlying, and those hedging orders can calm a market or push it further.
These guides explain the mechanics, the data behind them and its limits. They describe market structure; none of the levels or numbers is a trading signal on its own.
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