If anyone else is thinking to play this, let's crunch some numbers together:
CLOV
Citadel Advisors Llc has filed a 13F-HR/A form disclosing ownership of 513,775 shares.
The firm currently holds 922,000 call options and 429,000 put options.
The float of CLOV is
112.10M.
So Citadel holds (513,775 shares) + (49,300,000 optioned shares)
Those optioned shares are likely at least 80% delta hedged as Citadel initiated the move.
So we can assume 39,440,000 + 513,775 = 39,953,775 shares under control.
That's
35% of the float.
CLNE
Citadel Advisors Llc has filed a 13F-HR/A form disclosing ownership of 644,576 shares.
The firm currently holds 118,700 call options and 206,500 put options.
The float of CLNE is
152.85M.
So Citadel holds (644,576 shares) - (-8,780,000 optioned shares)
Those optioned shares are likely around 50% delta hedged. So we can assume 644,576 - 4,390,000= -3,745,424 shares shorted.
That's
2.5% of the float shorted.
Conclusions
Of the above, if there were about to be a car crash in the market, I would not want to touch the stock where the participants with a possibility of crashing owned or controlled
35% of the float.
Please note that since most financial institutions work in concert, these numbers may be drastically underestimated.
If you're gonna play a stock, know the battlefield. Currently there's weird shit happening.
I'm not saying CLOV is not going to rise, but be aware you may be climbing into a car crash.
If I was forced to play either one CLNE looks like the safer play, but I would stay far clear of both.