anybody have pointers for, if you know an enterprise company is being gutted so insiders can cash out and walk away from the smoldering hulk, how to tell that the limits of manipulating the stock price with RIFs and such are being reached and it's time to buy some put options?
i'd guess the theory is to do with the stock being too vulnerable to manipulation before it's established, and manipulation downward being more destructive than manipulation upward, but idk