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Options Market Makers Are Becoming a Shadow Volatility Central Bank.

Systematic options selling has concentrated short-gamma exposure in dealer books. As long as positioning remains stable, dealer hedging actively suppresses realized volatility. When positioning flips, the same flows invert and amplify moves nonlinearly. The interesting variable is not the level of volatility. It is the state-dependence of liquidity itself.

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