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Why Is Crude Oil Options Volume Growing?
As recently as five years ago, if you wanted to trade Energy options you had little choice but to go to a voice or futures broker who would then execute on the NYMEX trading floor, or pit, in New York. But during 2014, a revolution in options trading has led to more than 70 percent of the WTI options market trading electronically on CME Group’s Globex matching engine. The growth of electronic options trading enables more transactions to take place as buyers and sellers find it easier to execute. Electronic options trading also appears to be supplementing, rather than replacing, the business conducted on the floor. ... (full story)