{"id":208292,"date":"2024-06-21T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/?p=208292"},"modified":"2024-06-24T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:23:53","slug":"triple-witch-might-bring-some-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/options\/triple-witch-might-bring-some-excitement\/","title":{"rendered":"Triple Witch Might Bring Some Excitement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are two main considerations surrounding today\u2019s triple-witching expiration \u2013 the day each quarter when equity options, index futures, and futures options all expire.&nbsp; By the time you\u2019re reading this, the futures-related products and longer-term cash-settled index options have all expired \u2013 leading to a little volatility around the open \u2013 but we still have thousands of equity and ETF options expiring this afternoon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another feature of quarterly expirations is that is when S&amp;P Global (<span class=\"stock-ticker\" data-stock-ticker=\"SPGI\">SPGI<\/span>), the keeper of the S&amp;P 500 (<span class=\"stock-ticker\" data-stock-ticker=\"SPX\">SPX<\/span>), its sub-indices, and a whole host of others around the world, prefers to rebalance it key indexes.&nbsp; The key rebalancing this afternoon will occur in Technology Select Sector Index, which is the benchmark for the $80 billion XLK ETF.&nbsp; Nvidia\u2019s (<span class=\"stock-ticker\" data-stock-ticker=\"NVDA\">NVDA<\/span>) index weight will rise dramatically, mostly at the expense of Apple\u2019s (<span class=\"stock-ticker\" data-stock-ticker=\"AAPL\">AAPL<\/span>).&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/xlk-rebalancing-reverse-apple-nvidia-213000015.html\">It is expected<\/a> that the ETF will need to buy about $10 billion of NVDA while selling about $11 of AAPL at today\u2019s close.&nbsp;&nbsp; Considering the outsized importance of mega cap tech stocks overall, and NVDA in particular, upon broad market indices, it is not unreasonable for traders to be wary about outsized movements late in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the current market environment, when options trading has increasingly come to the forefront of market-related discussions, gamma has become a very popular, though poorly understood topic.&nbsp; It does indeed play an important role in stock market movements, something we discussed as far back as 2021, in articles entitled \u201c<a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/technical-analysis\/freaky-friday-another-spy-closing-ramp-or-gamma-squeeze\/?query=freaky%20friday&amp;query_id=5df7242a6f4757e7c402648d93c6a922&amp;index=prod_ibkrcampus_en&amp;user_token=anonymous-c0fc6f6c-0138-4b04-ace5-8450ec95575a\">Freaky Friday Struck Again \u2014 Another SPY Closing Ramp or Gamma Squeeze<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"\/campus\/traders-insight\/securities\/options\/expiring-open-interest-magnet-or-slingshot\/?query=slingshot&amp;query_id=c2ba7fc81fc13806258d25e0a3ac31dd&amp;index=prod_ibkrcampus_en&amp;user_token=anonymous-c0fc6f6c-0138-4b04-ace5-8450ec95575a\">Expiring Open Interest \u2013 Magnet or Slingshot<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the second derivative of price &#8211; the change in delta in relation to moves in the underlying stocks. 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