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Bet she will fly in on her broomstick on a stormy night

A $3.2 Trillion Option Expiration Seen Worsening Post-CPI Rout

Market makers seen selling equities to hedge their positionsDealer ‘gamma’ flipped to short post inf

A $3.2 Trillion Option Expiration Seen Worsening Post-CPI Rout

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After the S&P 500 fell below 4,000 -- an area that harbors one of the highest open interest to roll out -- selling intensified, according to Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers LLC.“Once we broke through there, all hell broke loose,” Sosnick said on Bloomberg TV. “I have not been one of those to make too much hay about these expirations but lately they really have become significant.”It’s the latest example of a controversial narrative that suggests that stocks effectively become a derivative of its own derivative -- one that upends the traditional relationship between options and their underlying assets.The interplay between the equity and options markets can be complex. 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