Traders Hedging with Short S&P 500 ETF
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:10 AM EST
Put volumes swelled in iShares Russell 2000 (NYSEArca: IWM) yesterday, with nearly 500,000 contracts changing hands. This has been fairly prevalent for the past several weeks as institutional portfolio managers are likely hedging small cap longs in portfolios on the way up. In other cautious...