What is the market maker’s role in the Exchange Traded Options market?
Market makers play an important role in the ASX Options market. Under contractual agreements with ASX, they are incentivised to achieve benchmark quoting requirements.
The quoting requirements are to ensure liquidity in the market, so that traders are more easily able to determine the value of, or trade into and out of an Options position.
ETO market makers are contracted into one or more classes (representing each underlying security) in which they must meet ASX’s volume and spread requirements which also involves quoting buy and sell prices for certain number of series, and/or responding to quote requests from other market participants for prices.
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