/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>28470363
Its honestly pretty hard to say. One of the first things I do is look at the stock in question and see if its up massively on the day and check if there's any potential catalysts that could garner a major move higher. You can't just look at how much premium was spent on a particular call or put and be like "wow no one is gonna throw 1 million dollars away! I'm definitely getting this!" Pic related. Look at all the premium spent on those IWM puts and look at where IWM is now. That is a clear example of someone who is long on a stock and is hedging their position with puts to avoid losses to the downside. A lot of times you gotta go with your gut if you're unsure. If I see multiple instances of a particular call/put option on a list, I'm more inclined to get it. Like the AAPL calls for example would have done pretty well if you got them when I first posted this. Its kind of the reason I got the NOK and OGI calls to begin with.

>>28470363
Its honestly pretty hard to say. One of the first things I do is look at the stock in question and see if its up massively on the day and check if there's any potential catalysts that could garner a major move higher. You can't just look at how much premium was spent on a particular call or put and be like "wow no one is gonna throw 1 million dollars away! I'm definitely getting this!" Pic related. Look at all the premium spent on those IWM puts and look at where IWM is now. That is a clear example of someone who is long on a stock and is hedging their position with puts to avoid losses to the downside. A lot of times you gotta go with your gut if you're unsure. If I see multiple instances of a particular call/put option on a list, I'm more inclined to get it. Like the AAPL calls for example would have done pretty well if you got them when I first posted this. Its kind of the reason I got the NOK and OGI calls to begin with.

>>26425152
I could find 2 instances of BBBY calls on the lists I currently got. The first once was 1/15 BBBY 24c. It was purchased when the stock was 19.75 on Dec 18 and BBBY closed at 25.70 on Jan 15 so expired ITM. Second one (pic related) was also for 1/15 and was a 20c. I couldn't find any longer expiry ones, but I just woke up not long ago so maybe I missed it.

Where's dark pool anon

I want to kiss him for my $20 BBBY calls

>>25537890
>Dark pools
I have heard the magic word and my autism meter has just gone off. In the 2 months or so that I've been looking at these dark pool lists, I've seen nothing but calls on indexes with the occasional put here and there which I assume was just hedging. In recent days I've been seeing more and more puts on indexes especially today.
>10m on that single SPY put strike
>millions in total on SPY and IWM puts.
I usually don't trade based on these lists, but I've deleveraged myself over the past couple days to sit in cash just in case, so I don't get wrecked if we do end up going down.

>>25537890
>Dark pools
I have heard the magic word and my autism meter has just gone off. In the 2 months or so that I've been looking at these dark pool lists, I've seen nothing but calls on indexes with the occasional put here and there which I assume was just hedging. In recent days I've been seeing more and more puts on indexes especially today.
>10m on that single SPY put strike
>millions in total on SPY and IWM puts. I usually don't trade based on these lists, but I've deleveraged myself over the past couple days to sit in cash just in case, so I don't get wrecked if we do end up going down.

:3

>Those SPY puts