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Yeah right - thanks for the helpful response Ted. I am asking a question which is apparently not easy to answer as I have not been able to hear a coherent response to it. What happens to the brand new options series opened by your beloved CBOE when this whole merger dividend thing goes down...

A stock that has gathered a lot of speculative attention is TRCH, if you were lucky enough to buy earlier this year you are sitting pretty. The reason is the upcoming merger with Metamaterials see e.g...

Well I managed to close at intrinsic - absurd but true - live and learn!

I am just a buck and a half off the mid - so not really far out. The spreads on FNSR are just impossible.

So I had opened a call ratio a few weeks back on FNSR SEP 6 expiry with intention of closing this week ahead of earnings. When I started trying that on Tuesday it appeared that the bid-ask on all the near term options is something like 0.10$ - 4.90$ With great difficulty I managed to close the...

No.

its time to short the market...

Never brag to your GF you will take TSLA private for $420

Your story was published Thursday 2.50 EDT. The ruling on Monday certainly didnt come out before the bell seeing as it is an Indiana judgement. Here's the week (note the bump UP on Thursday) : and here is the last month: and here is the SPY over 5 days - gosh it also was down just like UTX on...

So what?

I understand that but why for one option in particular - the 34 spread is fine.?

Honestly that spread was there all trading day yesterday - lets see how it opens.

Thanks for looking - that is Oct19 chain though - the one where i have an issue is the Oct26 one

Yesterday I had two positions where the bid/ask spread on one of the options was really bizarre. The one that is still easily visible is the eBay put oct19/oct26 35 strike calendar. The bid/ask for Oct19 is fine but on the Oct 26 it is really weird: P 34 1.87/1.94 IV 36% (OI 1040) P 35...

I like THOR - my strategy with them is to buy a call ratio ahead of earnings. Certainly this time it was a big winner (I even liquidated too early in hindsight) but due to the buffer effect of the short ITM option I usually do ok even if there is no pre-earnings runup. My experience - admittedly...

OP why do you want to trade the VIX specifically? is it the get rich quick bug or do you have a vision and a strategy? I have traded options as a private investor since I was 22 (I am 52 now) with varying intensity and would not randomly enter a trade into something so ephemeral as the VIX...

Float: https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/TLRY https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TLRY/key-statistics?p=TLRY Greenshoe was executed - your information is from the original SEC filing no big deal. As I posted on the thread regarding this stock in the Options forum, the small float is a...

What I dont understand is that you dont see the two are related. Yes the stock has a dearth of people willing to borrow the stock in the market and thats because there is a lot of demand to do so., If more bits of paper were available to be borrowed the pressure would be less.

*shakes head* Low float means less shares available to borrow and particularly when the options trading concerns a multiple of the full float of the company including the shares still in lock-up.

Thank you for the administrative data post it misses the point of the 'problem' completely. Your numbers are also off - there is 17M float available. 30% has been sold short already. Just check the open interest on JUST the Sep calls. There is 15,700 call options open and an equal amount traded...