Day Traders, Nasdaq Whales Show Market-Moving Clout With Options

  • Research has shown direct links between derivatives and shares
  • Main influences comes from signaling, hedging and expirations
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Beyond all the wrangling over who caused the recent boom in options is a more fundamental debate: How much do they matter to stock prices, anyway?

Quite a bit, according to the academic research.