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Both types are likely to be betting on oil price movements using options and futures contracts.
The day's trading was particularly volatile because of quadruple witching, the quarterly expiration of options and futures contracts.
Friday is also a quadruple witching day, the quarterly expiration of options and futures contracts, which can cause an unusually high trading volume.
Trading was heavy because of the occurrence of a quarterly "quadruple witching," which marks the simultaneous expiration of four kinds of options and futures contracts.
"It's a quadruple witching day," said Mr. Schweitzer, using the idiom for when four types of options and futures contracts expire on one day, "and a very calm one".
With the exception of Friday -- a "triple witching day," in which the quarterly expiration of options and futures contracts set off increased trading -- volumes were low, an indication that many traders were waiting for clearer trends to develop.
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