Letters

Concerns About Dividend Trading

Summary

SIFMA’s Listed Options Trading Committee provides comments to Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) to bring to their attention concerns about the options trading strategy known as “dividend trading.”

This strategy has raised a number of issues over the years, and SIFMA believes it now could pose a risk to members of the OCC. SIFMA would like to work with OCC, the options exchanges, and the regulators to develop a way to address the issues arising from the strategy.