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Is There a Cultural Allergy to Short-Date Options?
If the premium is shrunk so much, why not just flip the trade? At this point, if the cost of convexity is so small, why wouldn't I just go out and start buying at the money straddles? There are absolutely institutions that do that. But typically for a big institutional asset owner, short one-month puts are not an obvious match for their needs.