https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/c...-billions-using-biggest-gamma-squeeze-history Not everyone buys into ZeroHedge articles, but a few facts look interesting: ===== ... In the shares market, 2.3% of all volume is made up of trades for $2,000 or less. The increase in small trades has been even more notable in the options market, where 13% of all trades are for 1 contract. ... July single stock options volumes hit 114% of shares volumes. ... this option frenzy was a goldmine for retail brokerages such as Robinhood, Schwab and Etrade, which reported options trading activity surging 129% YTD (up 35% from June levels), which helped explain why various HFT outfits are paying so much to frontrun Robinhood option trades. ... =====
We were talking about this weeks before the news broke. It was surreal and caused a lot of damage. Anyway, it's all bad, bad news for SoftBank and Son the scammer going forward. https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...ructuring-and-pnl.344834/page-27#post-5188833
True. I posted this in context of the a few facts in the last article, regarding options volume and % of trades being single contracts.