Striking Insights: Energy Options Trends & Tools

Trending product: Weekly Crude Oil options

• Crude Oil Weekly options are now listed in $0.25 strike increments, providing a more precise option to manage short-term crude oil exposure
• WTI Weekly options trading activity is at recent highs -
  • Over 200 different of the new 0.25 strikes have traded for volume, totaling over 17,000 lots
  • WTI Weeklies ADV in July 2021 was 4,819 – highest level since March 2020
  • WTI Weeklies average daily open interest in July 2021 was 10,913 – highest level since March 2020

Our article, Hedging with WTI Crude Oil Weekly Options, provides a range of use cases and strategies for Weekly WTI options for storage, upstream, and downstream risk management.

Trending Chatter: Upcoming Winter volatility in Henry Hub options

• Screen-traded Henry Hub options (symbol LN) offer the most liquid order book for traders to manage their natural gas price risk
• Nearly 60% of all Henry Hub options trade on-screen
• Over 60% of on-screen volume in Henry Hub options is traded as an RFQ strategy

An interactive option analytics tool where users can analyze open interest and open interest change patterns for each expiration within the selected product.

• Open interest is building quickly in the Henry Hub options winter contract months
• Visualize open interest trends and put/call ratios with the Open Interest Profile tool

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