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Further strategies
Possibility to trade on corporate actions, news, quarterly results and short-term expectations with less exposure to risk.
Weekly Equity Options
B3 to Launch Options with Weekly Expirations, Bringing Flexibility and Efficiency to Hedge, Leverage and Speculation Trades
In addition to monthly option expirations, in 2023 we will make weekly expirations available.
The delivery enables different types of option trades, allowing, for example, to predict sudden market movements and increase protection against price changes. Initially, only a few tickers will be available for more liquid assets in the options market.
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Product benefits
Flexibility
Customization of trading, post-trade and automatic exercise strategies
Greater safety
Protection and mitigation of option price fluctuation risks on certain weeks.
Diversification
New opportunities to use hedge, leverage and speculation strategies, among others.
Learn about weekly options
Weekly options can mitigate price fluctuation risk and offer a new range of opportunities for investors.
Options contracts are derivative instruments created to mitigate price fluctuation risks, offering a hedging mechanism against possible losses to the market. Furthermore, options contracts are used to create investment strategies.
A range of opportunities to use hedge, leverage and speculation strategies, among others. Investors may, at any time, act on weekly options close to corporate action events and to the publication of balance sheets and news that affect companies, thus predicting and better capturing these sudden market movements.
Options style: European or American | Contract size: Volume of the option’s underlying | Quotation: Option premium in Brazilian Reals per unit or lot of the underlying, depending on the quotation type, to two decimal places | Tick size: BRL0.01 | Expiration date: Every Friday of each month, except the third Friday, when monthly options expire | Last trading day: Expiration date.
| ABEV3 | B3SA3 |
| BBDC4 | BHIA3 |
| BOVA11 | BOVV11 |
| GGBR4 | HAPV3 |
| ITUB4 | MGLU3 |
| NTCO3 | PETR4 |
| SUZB3 | VALE3 |
Timeline
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08/23/2023
Workshop
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09/06/2023
Start of Certification
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10/31/2023
End of Certification
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01/29/2024
Go-live
Available to the market
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Main systems
GPS Pricing, RTC, SINACOR, CAP, TS, Market Data
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No impact
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What is the Sinacor version?
v23.3
