WTF? Down 15k on huge option mispricing. Can someone check please

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Tomaz26

Yesterday I sold 4 x CLH21 20 put options for 2.20.. Today they went down to 2.0 and I showed some profit, now suddenly I get IB warning my account is down 15k. But CL feb 2021 futures are still up. If anything I should be making more profit now. What is going on? Is this IB related or exchange related, something must be wrong. When I check january or march 2021 chain pricing is still ok. But for feb 2021 option is now worth 6.5 instead of 2.... I dont understand this, totally shocked.. I closed some profitable positions to free some margin, but I dont know what is going on.. Why are those options price like that suddenly. Makes no sense..

thanks for help
 
This was my first instinct too, but this pricing is out of this world. 20 put is now worth more than one month prior or one month after ATM option. With CLH21 trading at 31, how can 20 put be worth that much. This is nonsense. And a huge ARB oportunity in this case if someone knows how to play this. I mean other option chains are normal, only this one totally out of whack. Not sure what is going on .. And cannot get any support from IB either..
 
zdreg said:
What is the current bid and ask?
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Dont see any.. This option is 300 days out so there is really almost no liquidity. I suspect this might be the case in such pricing. But still why only this month. Futures volume here is quite big compares to some prior or after months, but options volume is liquid on CL options only on 1-6 months to expiration. Whatever is further back gets very little liquidity.. But then all other chains should look similar stil.. Why only this one gets such pricing is beyond me..
 
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