ETFs are more and more ‘mainstream for fast money’ amid rise in choices exercise tied to exposures in shares, bonds

Hi! This week’s ETF Wrap seems on the bounce in choices contracts tied to exchange-traded funds such because the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust.

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Options exercise surrounding exchange-traded funds has jumped, because the ETF market evolves to more and more entice buyers partaking in short-term buying and selling methods or to precise their views on shares and bonds, in keeping with analysis from Citigroup.

“I feel like the macro is driving a lot of this,” mentioned Drew Pettit, director of ETF evaluation and technique in Citigroup’s analysis enterprise, in a cellphone interview. “Macro” drivers would possibly embody financial information on inflation in addition to statements from the Federal Reserve, he mentioned. 

Activity in choices contracts tied to ETFs picked up in 2020 amid the market volatility and uncertainty throughout the earlier levels of the pandemic and has continued to surge since then, in keeping with Pettit. He mentioned the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
SPY
and Invesco QQQ Trust
QQQ
are standard amongst institutional buyers for choices buying and selling, whereas the ARK Innovation ETF
ARKK
additionally exhibits up quite a bit within the most-active choices being traded.

“Now, we’re seeing a lot more people talk about fixed income ETF options,” Pettit mentioned. “Those are growing in popularity.”

Read: QQQ is bleeding belongings, however are ETF buyers ‘finally bailing’ on development shares simply as tech shares bounce in 2023?

Options contracts give buyers the correct however not the duty to purchase or promote a safety at a said value earlier than a sure date. Institutional buyers are utilizing choices contracts linked to an ETF to precise a optimistic or damaging view on the belongings underlying the fund’s funding technique or to hedge their books, in keeping with Pettit.

Citi fairness strategist Scott Chronert mentioned Feb. 6 throughout a panel on the Exchange convention in Miami Beach, Florida that he noticed “tremendous growth” in choices exercise tied to ETFs final 12 months. He mentioned that choices buying and selling round exchange-traded funds is a part of the “next wave of innovation” within the ETF market. 

Within mounted earnings, Pettit mentioned the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
HYG,
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF
TLT
and that iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
LQD
are standard ETFs with institutional buyers, in addition to the Invesco Senior Loan ETF
BKLN.

Citi’s institutional purchasers embody buyers akin to pension funds, hedge funds, actively-managed mutual funds, bigger endowments or insurance coverage corporations’ “tactical sleeves,” in keeping with Pettit.

While fairness ETFs “SPY” and “QQQ” have attracted day by day choices buying and selling, with contracts expiring that very same day, buyers have a tendency to make use of weekly choices for different areas of the exchange-traded-fund market, akin to fixed-income ETFs, or say, “ARKK” and the KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF
KWEB,
in keeping with Pettit. 

On some days, bullish or bearish choices buying and selling round ETFs can transfer the needle on stock-market costs, notably with “shorter expiry options,” mentioned Pettit. “When everyone switches on a dime and starts putting on the same trade in options, then you see a little bit more of a pull.”

In a analysis report early this month, Citi strategists together with Pettit and Chronert mentioned that ETFs are “increasingly mainstream for fast money.” 

A chart of their report included the highest 25 ETFs by “year-over-year change in average daily options contract volume.” See under.


CITI RESEARCH NOTE DATED FEB. 2, 2023

“We expect more funds to take on liquidity characteristics of ETFs that are heavily used for institutional trading purposes,” the Citi strategists mentioned within the report, pointing to “rapid repositioning, risk management and hedging use cases.” They mentioned to anticipate extra ETFs “with narrower exposures, think sector, industry, single factor, single country and even thematic, to have increasingly tactical use.”

Read: Another ‘Volmageddon’? JPMorgan turns into the newest to warn about an more and more standard short-term choices technique.

Also see: A possible stock-market disaster within the making: The recognition of those dangerous choice bets has Wall Street on edge

As normal, right here’s your take a look at the top- and bottom-performing ETFs over the previous week by means of Wednesday, in keeping with FactSet information.

The good…
Top Performers %Performance
ARK Next Generation Internet ETF
ARKW
9.1
ARK Fintech Innovation ETF
ARKF
7.5
ARK Innovation ETF
ARKK
6.7
ALPS Clean Energy ETF
ACES
5.5
WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund
WCLD
5.4
Source: FactSet information by means of Wednesday, Feb. 15, excluding ETNs and leveraged merchandise. Includes NYSE, Nasdaq and Cboe traded ETFs of $500 million or larger
…and the dangerous
Bottom Performers %Performance
abrdn Physical Platinum Shares ETF
PPLT
-3.8
WisdomTree China ex-State-Owned Enterprises Fund
CXSE
-3.5
iShares Asia 50 ETF
AIA
-3.4
VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF
GDXJ
-3.3
VanEck Gold Miners ETF
GDX
-3.3
Source: FactSet information
Weekly ETF reads

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