Plus500 (LON: PLUS) has introduced weekly options, starting with contracts on gold, oil, the Nasdaq 100, and the S&P 500. These are options contracts for differences (CFDs), and the broker has plans to add more options contracts for additional assets.
A Product for Active Traders
These contracts will refresh every seven days. According to the broker, these weekly contracts have been introduced with active traders in mind, giving them more frequent entry points to capitalise on short-term price swings.
Although these weekly options are available to all Plus500 clients, direct access will depend on regulatory approvals. However, for now, these weekly options will be available only outside the US as a part of its CFD platform.
The new products have been introduced at a time when demand for options contracts has been rising globally, especially amid market volatility.
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The Growing Options Demand Globally
US-listed options hit a record in 2025 for the sixth consecutive year, with total volume reaching 15.2 billion contracts, 26 per cent higher than the previous year. On average, 61 million contracts were traded daily, with strong growth across all segments.
Gold options trading, mostly taking place on CME’s COMEX, hit a record in October 2025, when average daily volume (ADV) reached 156,000 contracts. Although the gold options ADV on the platform fell to 96,000 contracts in December, the recent gold rally may have pushed the figures higher.
Index options averaged about 5 million contracts daily in 2025, including an average daily volume of 3.9 million contracts in SPX.
The weekly options are an addition to Plus500’s existing range of derivative products. The broker offers options contracts for differences (CFDs) in most jurisdictions, while in the United States, it provides regulated direct access to futures and options trading.
Although CFD brokers in the UK and Europe are required to show the percentage of losing customers, they do not provide data on losses by product type. Notably, the Australian regulator recently revealed that 85 per cent of retail clients trading options CFDs lost money in 2025. However, the regulator did not clarify which clients are suitable to trade these options CFDs.
