One of the names catching headlines recently is ORCL. They have a conditionally approved deal to takeover TikToc, and that appears to have call buyers excited. In the chart below our “Hedge Wall” (blue dotted line) is at 60 – this is a key support/resistance level in the name. Note the blue call gamma line […]
Market Analysis
How a retail options craze fueled SoftBank’s ‘whale’ trade
FT article shines light on what we said: Softbanks wasnt so much of a whale. …retail traders have together spent almost $40bn on similar trades just over the past four weeks, according to Sundial Capital Research. Dean Curnutt, the chief executive of Macro Risk Advisors, a derivatives strategy firm, said those millions of retail traders […]
Nomura September Update: It’s Not Over Yet
Nomura Warns “Vol-Control” Funds Continue To Drive Incremental “Sell Flows” Simply put, Nomura’s MD of Cross-Asset Strategy, Charlie McElligott, warns, it’s not over yet… Yesterday was a reminder on the magnitude of the $Gamma clean-up that is being worked out of by the US Eq Vol Dealer community as per the 50-handle S&P mush-down in the final […]
No, Softbank Didn’t Weaponize Options Gamma
One of the biggest stories at the moment is that of Softbank and their massive options positions which many are attributing to the markets large runup in late August. There are a ton of stories and opinions floating around on this topic and we thought it warranted a bit of mapping to clear some truths […]
SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally
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AAPL Options Gamma Unwind
It’s September 3, 2020 and parts of the market crashed. Let’s start with AAPL.
Nomura Gamma Crash Up
From ZH On Saturday, when we published our lengthy compendium of bizarro market charts showing the paradoxical melt up in both risk assets and the VIX, leading to the most positive correlation between the S&P and the VIX since the Feb 2018 Volmageddon event… … we said that “one reason why no conventional indicator seem to matter […]
AAPL Options Insanity
From ZH And since nothing else has changed and we already showed what is going on from a delta- and gamma-hedging perspective… … we will give the last word to the Bear-Traps report which describes the “Insanity” in Apple Options: The convexity skew picture on big-name equities like Apple $AAPL has gone parabolically stupid. Let’s keep this […]
WMT Options Gamma Trap
WMT is trading over 5% higher today be in on rumors of new services, or possibly buying TikToc. Doesnt matter. Whats interesting is there are a LOT of call options sitting >=140 strike, with another 240k calls trading so far today. Its 11AM EST. It appears the gamma could fuel a move up toward $160, […]
FANGMAN+T Call vs Put Interest
In June we saw put interest leading in the top tech names, but over the past two months we’ve see call open interest gap well over put open interest.