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title: Options Trading Impact on Stock Market
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5124454/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5124454
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5124454
featured: 2025-02-19
citations: unknown
topic: Derivatives & Volatility
---


# Options Trading Impact on Stock Market

The paper investigates the effect of equity options trading and investor sentiment on stock market returns and volatility, concluding that both call and put option trading increase stock price volatility.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5124454
- Identifier: SSRN 5124454
- Released: 2025-02-04
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 85 (2025-02-19): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-02-19/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Derivatives & Volatility

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