Informed trading around earnings announcements—Spot, futures, or options?

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Title:	Informed trading around earnings announcements—Spot, futures, or options?
Authors:	Jain, Sonali Pandey, Ajay Varma, Jayanth R. Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar
Issue Date:	2018
Publisher:	Wiley
Citation:	Jain, S., Agarwalla, S., Varma, J., & Pandey, A. (2018). Informed trading around earnings announcements – Spot, futures, or options? Journal of Futures Markets, 39(5), 579-589. doi:10.1002/fut.21983
Abstract:	Recent literature reports higher single stock options (SSO) volume before earnings announcements (EA). There are no studies that explore single stock futures (SSF) in this context because of illiquid SSF markets in developed countries. Similar to SSO, SSF provide embedded leverage and facilitate short selling although at a lower cost, but do not provide downside‐risk protection. India’s liquid SSO and SSF provide a unique setting to study the preference of informed traders. We observe an increase in both SSO and SSF volume before EA. Further, SSF dominate SSO possibly due to SSO becoming expensive before EA and higher information leakage in India.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/11718/23060
ISSN:	1096-9934
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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