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How Does Gamma Hedging Contribute to the Overall Trading Volume?

Gamma hedging significantly increases overall trading volume. Since Gamma dictates that Delta changes rapidly, market makers must constantly adjust their hedge positions by buying or selling the underlying asset.

This continuous, forced trading activity, driven purely by the need to maintain a neutral risk profile, adds substantial, non-discretionary volume to the underlying market, especially during periods of high volatility.

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