As put flows pile in on TSLA, there could be a put driven gamma squeeze down in the stock.
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TSLA Options For Sale
The week ending 1/8/21 saw a record high in TSLA options volume, with the stock surging nearly 20%. Traders have been flooding into weekly options as the way to express their views on the stock which was just recently added to the S&P500 Index. We view increased buying of call options as a driver for […]
TSLA S&P500 Add Shenanigans
Note that last candle, which closes the stock at $695 – the days high. Did someone really just pay $695 for $TSLA shares? pic.twitter.com/zi5UrJopbq — Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) December 18, 2020 TESLA TRADING VOLUME AT 180 MILLION AS STOCK SETTLES AT END OF SESSION, TURNOVER AT $122 BILLION — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) December 18, 2020 […]
TSLA into the S&P500
In TSLA the largest gamma area was $600 heading into today. The stock traded down to $605 earlier this AM, $620 now. The largest volume & OI region is >=$650 44% of TSLA gamma exp on close of12/18, by which time ~$50bn of TSLA stock needs to be bought by S&P indexers
Nomura + SpotGamma – 2.5 Trillion Reasons To Care About This Week’s ‘Quad Witch’ Options Expiration
2.5 Trillion Reasons To Care About This Week’s ‘Quad Witch’ Options Expiration From ZeroHedge:Tue, 12/15/2020 – 11:55 Like all December option expirations, this month’s is large, with $2.5tln of SPX-linked options notional (linked to 8% of the S&P’s market cap) expiring on 18-Dec, but for a December, it is not extreme… Nomura’s Charlie McElligott notes […]
TSLA Timeline into the S&P500 Add
TSLA will be added to the S&P500 Index next week, and will be approximately 1.5% of the index. We covered the mechanics of this add, here. The chart below highlights the key recent events, and some relevant future dates. The “$” markets indicate where Musk has received a bonus in the form of TSLA options. […]
TSLA Added to the S&P500
Last night the S&P announced that TESLA (TSLA) would be added to the S&P500 (SPX) Index by Monday 12/21. What this effectively means is that anyone that has funds (pensions & other large asset managers) indexed to the S&P500 will need to purchase TSLA stock, and will sell whichever stock(s) TSLA is replacing(TBD). As TSLA […]
TSLA Has Less Spark
TSLA announced earnings last night which beat expectations and the stock reacted… fairly normally. No insane pops or drops. We think much of this tepid reaction is due to the relative lack of gamma compared to past earnings periods (see here). Below is a chart of the current gamma levels in TSLA, and you can […]
TSLA Options Pre Earnings
TSLA reports earnings tonight, and there is a ton of options gamma to generate a large move tomorrow. We define key levels for the stock as follows: Lots of Gamma at 1500 – thats the “pivot” area where stock remains a bull above, bear below. There are a ton of in the money calls at […]
TSLA Options Deltas
We show TSLA having the 1500 as the key options strike going into Friday 7/17. The stock yesterday breached 1750 before pulling back to 1500. Its clear the options flow changed when the stock tagged that 1750 area as you can see in the chart at bottom. Friday will such and interesting date fore the […]
