Equity Options: Pro Tips for Investor Relations
If call or put options volume on your company are spiking, what might that mean? What are the opportunities and risks that investor relations need to know?
The options market can provide sentiment information about the underlying company before that information is expressed in stock prices. Savvy IR professionals know how to systematically monitor unusual trading activity and news on the companies they care about.
In this session we will show how to use the Bloomberg Terminal to:
- Identify outlier moments and trades
- Monitor bullish and bearish trading sentiment
- Filter for news and social media sentiment
The options market can provide sentiment information about the underlying company before that information is expressed in stock prices. Savvy IR professionals know how to systematically monitor unusual trading activity and news on the companies they care about.
In this session we will show how to use the Bloomberg Terminal to:
- Identify outlier moments and trades
- Monitor bullish and bearish trading sentiment
- Filter for news and social media sentiment
Speakers
Matt Connorton
Market Specialist, Equities & Converts
Bloomberg
Matt Connorton is a Market Specialist focusing on equity and index options. In this capacity he interacts with buy-side and sell-side derivatives traders and portfolio managers to support all related analytical, market surveillance, and transaction-related functionality available thru the Bloomberg Professional Service. He gives presentations on volatility analysis, as well as the systematic and tactical use of options with groups like the CBOE and the CFA society. Matt joined Bloomberg in 2007 and has held a variety of positions at the firm prior to becoming a market specialist and holds a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.