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Re:Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freez... by throwaway2037 on Monday July 07, 2025 @12:20AM (#44486724) 

    > What matters is the volume rather than the liquidity per se
What is the difference between volume and liquidity for the purpose of this discussion?

    > The exception is when there's a derivative market that has more volume than the underlying
This is wildly rare in public markets.
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Re:Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freez... by lmm on Monday July 07, 2025 @12:36AM (#44486796)
> What is the difference between volume and liquidity for the purpose of this discussion?

You're the one asking "Why would liquidity matter here?", you tell me. Like I said, they're correlated well enough that it doesn't really matter as far as I can see.

> This is wildly rare in public markets.

Yes, but it's what happened here.

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Re:Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freez... by greyw on Monday July 07, 2025 @12:43AM (#44486829)
Option markets are quite often more liquid than the underlying in India which is why Janestreet was able to pull that off.

Retail folks use options to gamble. Apps gamify access/trading. It's really odd like that.

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