Alibaba Options Listed On The First Day Of Active Trading

Beijing time on September 30th morning news, this Monday is the first day of Alibaba group stock options trading, the day's trading is very active, bearish and bullish sentiment is evenly matched.

This situation also shows that the number of investors who think Alibaba shares may rise and may fall is basically the same.

The stock fell 2% in the world and closed at $88.80.

According to the data of Trade Alert of options analysis company, Alibaba stock options trading volume reached 122 thousand shares on Monday, of which 65 thousand were call options and 57 thousand were put options.

Alibaba also ranked tenth in the most active companies on the day of the options market.

Facebook has achieved 355 thousand pactions in the first options trading day after its listing in May 2012, while Alibaba's options trading volume is about 1/3 of Facebook.

"This is a dull first day trading option."

Brian Overby, senior option analyst at TradeKing, an online brokerage, said Brian Overby.

According to Livevol, a financial data company, the implied volatility of Alibaba options is 30, and micro-blog and Baidu are 60.32% and 34.16% respectively. The implied volatility is 41.54%.

Implied volatility is an index used to assess the volatility risk of a particular stock and a key factor in option pricing.

"I still keep

Put it on the "easy to borrow" stock list, so there are not many factors that will increase volatility.

Overby said.

Short sellers sometimes use the options market to express their bearish expectations and hope to profit from falling stock prices.

Since September 19th, Alibaba

Since then, the cost of borrowing has changed dramatically: according to the analysis of SunGard 's Astec Analytics, the index was initially around 25%, and quickly dropped to 0.2%, and remained at that level, indicating that the short selling of the stock was not very difficult.

"Last Friday.

About 8% of all stocks currently lent are returned.

SunGard 's Astec Analytics market analyst Karl Loomis (Karl Loomes) said.

According to data company Markit, about 22% of all Alibaba stock can be sold short.

Alfred predicted that the implied volatility of Alibaba options would remain between 30% and 25% in the coming week.

Alibaba's financing in the IPO (initial public offering) amounted to $25 billion, the highest ever recorded in the global capital market.