You are right again. Since they borrowed the stock in order to short it, they will need to hand back the dividend, making the trade outcome...
Wow. You are right. The trade involved also also the buying of 570 call 33. So it is a perfect 3 leg arbitrage. They will make money regardless of...
It is reported as a combo trade, so you have to look at both legs if you want to really guess the trader intent. I have the today OI, 315, so it...
Since they simultaneously shorted the put, it makes sense they shorted the stock too. Otherwise the trade would have been too imbalanced on the...
Today someone shorted 570 Puts 33 on VFC @ 4.6 and simultaneously (well, kind of, since about 30 secs passed by) shorted 57000 shares @ 28.905:...
Indeed it looks like there is still some play left on WayFair, but I am not sure how much I'll hold my calls before reselling them. One more...
I agree with your points, just my dataframe is rather narrow, November 18, and I am hoping to capture heavy movements in this period. Just to tell...
Thanks, but unfortunately my wife already entered long ago! :D
Replaced also short with sport...
Sorry for the bad title.....the automatic error check replaced the word anyone with Antonella! :-)
Among the stocks that skyrocketed last week there was W (WayFair). In a couple of days it went from the high twenties to the low forties, fueled...
The 390 daily/monthly rule you mentioned exists for sure, but I remember, may be Robert Morse, talking about a limitation on a pure daily basis....
It was mantioned a while ago on this forum that there was a daily maximum number of bids+offers a retailer could place. If I recall it corectly it...
Thanks for clarifying matters. I am really surprised by what they wrote to you. However, they are not mentioning any specific rule violation....
I understand you don't want to tell us who is the broker. I understand you don't want to mention the option you were scalping. But please tell us...
Are these Large Options Positions then made publicly available by Finra?
scuse me..who is FF?
Ciao, Ivano, Nice thread. One thing I always found puzzling is to spot the direction of these trades. I mean, since they are mostly shopped, the...
nice prediction. what did convice you of such possible scenario?
Thanks for the info on structured trades. Sometimes, I also spot combined underlying/options block trades, but it is hard to judge the direction,...
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