Trump Media has meme vibes in options
Wall Street Breakfast
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4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Coinbase stock dips as judge rules SEC case can move forward
Utilities have beaten semis most Aprils since 2011
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Lunch, our afternoon update on today's market action news and analysis. |
| 0:10.0 | Good afternoon. Today is Wednesday, March 27th, and I'm your host, Kim Khan. |
| 0:14.0 | Our top story so far. Trump media is rallying again, but seeing the same volatility as its debut in the previous session. |
| 0:21.0 | This type of company, long-un personality and short on earnings, has sparked discussion of |
| 0:26.5 | a mean stocks renaissance. |
| 0:28.4 | An option activity indicates DJT could see the same kind of breakneck moves as Gainstop and AMC. |
| 0:35.0 | Trump media shares could see a gamma squeeze from heavy buying of deep out of the money call options. |
| 0:40.0 | Those options offer the right to buy at a much higher price than where the stock is currently trading for a low premium. |
| 0:47.0 | Those selling or writing the call are hoping the price will decline, but like shorting the downside can technically be limitless. |
| 0:53.0 | Investors who sell calls subsequently buy shares of the stock when it is rising to hedge their positions. |
| 0:59.0 | The double dose of demand for shares can result is once known as a gamma squeeze. |
| 1:04.4 | If you look at options for Trump media for expiration Thursday, March 28th, that's tomorrow, |
| 1:09.0 | the biggest bet is for shares to top 90 dollars. |
| 1:12.2 | That would be a gain of nearly 50% in one day. But pushing out the |
| 1:15.8 | date just a week shows a barest shift in options bets. The most popular near-term |
| 1:19.9 | options bet is for the April 19th 250 puts at a premium of 2 cents. Those |
| 1:25.9 | options would need a 96% drop from current levels in less than a month to be in |
| 1:30.2 | the money. In today's trading stocks are choppy in the absence of any market |
| 1:35.4 | moving data. The major averages are mixed with the Dowfaring the best. Treasury yields are |
| 1:40.3 | slightly lower. Looking at Q1 performance, Goldman's trading desk says, |
| 1:44.7 | the scores on the doors are stellar. Long-onlys, passive and active, |
| 1:48.8 | hedge funds, long short with net bias or multi-asset, systemic quant,, trend or stat arb, bottom line, most if not everyone has |
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