The number of sea shanties being sung about GameStop is a larger positive integer than I would have expected in 2019https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/mc7t74/gme_sea_shanty_tendies_in_the_ocean_aping_the_dip/ …
Options speculation can have enormous leverage and cascading feedback effects, even for comparatively small amounts of money invested, if the price starts to swing around crazily. It's much more destabilizing than stonk speculation
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But options are rarely exercised. What other way might an option affect the price of the underlying stock? Shorting is another case where puts would be better IMO.
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When you buy options from a market maker, the counterparty buys some underlying shares to hedge the risk. For far out of the money options, this is a tiny fraction. But if the price swings closer to the strike price, they have to buy more and more, which in turn affects price
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