Congratulations to everyone who bought this at much lower levels. For what it's worth, I covered my short position in FRE below 40 cents.
Apart from the ban on shorting, the related difficulty in borrowing the stock (i.e., existing short positions being bought in), and just 'momentum', is there a fundamental reason why these (nationalised) companies are trading above $1.80?
The $3 puts still look cheap to me, given that these stocks were below $1 yesterday, and could be trading below $1 later this week.