{"id":188511,"date":"2023-04-13T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/?p=188511"},"modified":"2023-04-13T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:35:00","slug":"have-zero-dated-options-broken-vix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/options\/have-zero-dated-options-broken-vix\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Zero-Dated Options Broken VIX?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I receive all sorts of questions during any given week, but two options-related themes seem to be the most pressing: what are the risks of so-called \u201czero-dated\u201d or \u201c0DTE\u201d options; and is the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) \u201cbroken\u201d?&nbsp; Yet I\u2019ve rarely had anyone ask me to consider the relationship between them.&nbsp; Well, whether or not you\u2019re asking, I\u2019ll address that point today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First and foremost, it is important to formally define these products.&nbsp; Zero-dated options are defined as those with one day or less until expiration.&nbsp; I\u2019ve written extensively about 0DTE options over the past few weeks: <a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/options\/the-games-havent-changed-the-casino-opened-more-tables\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/options\/zero-dated-options-are-hot-but-not-hazardous\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/options\/individual-risk-vs-systemic-risk\/\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/options\/omg-they-all-have-0dte-options-tomorrow\/\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; The summary version is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\">\n<li>Every listed option eventually becomes zero-dated.&nbsp; That has always been the case.&nbsp; By definition, every listed option expires, and thus becomes 0DTE on expiration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>0DTE options are evolutionary, not revolutionary.&nbsp; There has been a steady compression of expiration cycles over time.&nbsp; We first went from three sets of quarterly cycles to monthly expirations sometime during the first 30 years of options trading.&nbsp; In 2005 we had the first set of weekly expirations.&nbsp; In February 2016 we got Wednesday expirations, and in August of that year we got Mondays.&nbsp; Most recently, last April and May we filled in the calendar with Tuesday and Thursday expiries.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The only options with sub-weekly expiration cycles are a limited set of index options and key ETF and futures options that are based upon those major indices.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know of no immediate plans to list equity options with cycles less than weekly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Each of the compressions of the expiration cycle were greeted with a mix of groans and inevitability.&nbsp; But it is important to remember that each of these moves utilized a time-tested risk and settlement methodology.&nbsp; For that reason, few if any of the cataclysmic risk concerns about 0DTE came from folks with long-time, hands-on trading, clearing and risk management experience in the day-to-day business of options.&nbsp; The most vocal pronouncements have come from those with excellent broad market views, but less experience in the nuts and bolts of the options market.&nbsp; I spent over 20 years as an options market maker, so you can figure out where I stand on the topic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No one really noticed when the industry went to daily expirations a year ago.&nbsp; They came into focus in the aftermath of the February 1<sup>st<\/sup> FOMC meeting.&nbsp; On Thursday, February 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, aggressive traders realized that options expiring that day could allow them to turbocharge their bets on a powerful market rally without having to concern themselves with Friday morning\u2019s Payrolls report.&nbsp; It was the perfect use case for 0DTE options, and we saw record industry volume as a result.&nbsp; Few were prepared for the potential for a so-called \u201cgamma squeeze\u201d to occur any day of the week \u2013 they had <a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/its-friday-might-we-see-another-spy-ramp-in-the-final-hour\/\">typically been limited to Fridays<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Much is made about the concentration of volume in short-dated options.\u00a0 It is estimated that about 40% of industry volume is concentrated in options with 0-1 days to expiration.\u00a0 But that is nothing new.\u00a0 When the Cboe filed to list daily expirations, they asserted that over 40% of industry volume was already occurring in options expiring in five days or less.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trend is quite understandable.&nbsp; Longer times to expiration mean larger outlays for buyers.&nbsp; When one buys a longer-term option, a good portion of the price is time premium.&nbsp; Speculators want to maximize the potential \u201cbang for their bucks,\u201d laying out a minimal amount of cash with the hope of a quick double-digit (or more) percentage return.&nbsp; It thus makes sense for them to gravitate to shorter-term options.&nbsp; Smaller outlays can lead to greater percentage returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is a nasty feature about the nature of the time premium, and resulting decay, that traders in short-term options often overlook.&nbsp; Decay is non-linear.&nbsp; It is relatively slow and approximately linear in options with weeks or more until expiration but becomes sharply exponential as we approach expiration.&nbsp; One of the first lessons I learned as an options trader \u2013 when monthly expirations were the norm &#8212; was that decay falls off a cliff in the last week to expiration.&nbsp; This is especially true for options expiring later that day.&nbsp;&nbsp; The price of the option is pure time premium which will disappear by the end of the day.&nbsp; That can be wonderful for writers and a higher-than-expected hurdle for writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By now you\u2019ve likely noticed that VIX has played no role in this discussion about 0DTE options.&nbsp; That\u2019s because they have only very limited bearing on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cboe.com\/tradable_products\/vix\/faqs\/\">calculation of VIX<\/a>.&nbsp; According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cboe.com\/tradable_products\/vix\/faqs\/\">Cboe\u2019s website<\/a>, VIX is designed to be, \u201can instantaneous measure of how much the market thinks the S&amp;P 500 Index will fluctuate in the 30 days.\u201d&nbsp; It is calculated using only Friday-expiring SPX index options with more then 23 and less than 37 days to expiration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a few takeaways from that simple explanation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\">\n<li>VIX is not a short-term measure.&nbsp; It is always looking 30 days ahead<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The shortest options used in VIX have over three weeks to go until expiration.&nbsp; It is true that a 30 day option reflects the average daily movement of the underlying index over that period, the volatility that affects 0DTE options is only a small component of the pricing of the longer-term option.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most importantly \u2013 while VIX is commonly termed <a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/vix-is-not-now-nor-has-it-ever-been-the-fear-index\/\">the market\u2019s \u201cfear index\u201d<\/a>, the word \u201cfear\u201d never appears in the definition.&nbsp; There is of course an obvious correlation between fear and higher implied options volatility, but it is not specifically measured by VIX.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>So, we find ourselves with a bifurcated options market.&nbsp; Roughly half the volume is concentrated in ultra-short-term expirations, meaning that VIX is calculated from a subset of the other half of the options universe.&nbsp; But that hardly means that VIX is broken.&nbsp; In fact, by removing much of the speculative activity one might assert that it has become more accurate and specialized.&nbsp; Those who trade VIX and the specific options upon which it is based haven\u2019t gone anywhere.&nbsp; They remain active and laser-focused upon the relevant products.&nbsp; Just like everyone else, these traders might be right or wrong over time, but they suddenly haven\u2019t gotten dumber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one argument that seems to hold water is that on down days we find more hedgers moving into shorter-term options than before.&nbsp; There is indeed improved liquidity in those options, and in a market where crises have once again become short-lived, they can indeed offer less expensive protection.&nbsp; But those who seek portfolio protection over the longer term and for larger sizes have no obvious reason to migrate away from VIX.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some asserted that VIX was broken when markets were falling during the latter half of 2022 and VIX failed to rise to the levels seen earlier in the year.&nbsp; I think the explanation is simpler.&nbsp; The drops that occurred early in the year caught most investors by surprise.&nbsp; Those who were caught offsides needed a hedge in a hurry and paid up for it.&nbsp; As the year progressed, investors had a chance to lower their risk profiles \u2013 either by raising cash or moving into defensive names.&nbsp; That resulted in less need to pay up for VIX and other volatility protection.&nbsp; That was not a function of 0DTE options, by the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The one question that I have trouble resolving is how VIX remained relatively stable even as bond volatility exploded. &nbsp;&nbsp;The correlation between the MOVE Index and VIX has never been all that high \u2013 the R^2 has been below 0.50 for most of the past year \u2013 but there was a relative <a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/macro\/once-more-if-you-cant-price-risk-free-assets\/\">lack of concern in equities<\/a> even as bond traders were freaking out.&nbsp; There are several potential explanations, ranging from the benign (stocks can\u2019t reprice bond market moves in real time) to the frightening (stock traders simply don\u2019t notice or care), but the issue is with the equity and options markets themselves, not VIX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bottom line: 0DTE options have not broken VIX.&nbsp; VIX isn\u2019t broken, nor did 0TE options actually break anything in a fundamental sense.&nbsp; Sure, 0DTE options caught many in the marketplace by surprise, and as a result there had to be some angry people on the wrong side of a speculative wave, but we\u2019ve noted that they are the natural evolution of a mature marketplace, not some weird, inherently dangerous mutant.&nbsp; And VIX continues to do what it is designed for, reflecting the market\u2019s best estimate of SPX volatility over the coming 30 days.&nbsp; Those estimates may or may not be accurate, but that is the result of those who trade VIX and SPX, not VIX itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I receive all sorts of questions during any given week, but two options-related themes seem to be the most pressing: what are the risks of so-called \u201czero-dated\u201d or \u201c0DTE\u201d options; and is the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) \u201cbroken\u201d?  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