Moving on...

What is "non-dealer gamma?"
And that means stuff that's held directly between two customers, with no dealer in the middle.
Thing is...

Customers don't predictably re-hedge their deltas, so their impact on the underlying isn't as uniform as dealers'. But they still respond to changes in S&P 500 price and volatility, just like dealers do.

They just tend to do it all at once.

And at bad times.
We're getting pretty close to one of those "bad times."

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2 Sep
We talked a lot about the Vanna-Gamma Ratio (VGR) yesterday, and how it tells us about the fragility of customer positioning in SPX.

But it didn't show us the whole picture.

Today, let's add the last piece to our discussion of "non-dealer gamma."
The missing piece is Net Put Delta (NPD). Image
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I.e., NPD + VGR = something pretty useful.
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After all, when more people are more exposed to vanna, they are more exposed to changes in vol!
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You spend every last penny of your life savings, and your brokerage margin, on Friday-expiring...
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There are two possibilities here.

(1) You make some money, but not very much, because you were only able to sell a few contracts (regardless of Reg T or PM).
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"But what about the other 50%?" you wonder.
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"Dealer gamma is only getting more important!"

But that's just not true anymore. As dealer inventory gets bigger, and as people model it with increasing accuracy, it actually becomes *less* important.
People figured out that it matters, so it matters less.
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