From what I gathered of that meeting, seems like the millions is to keep him there and quiet :/

A lightbulb just went off for me! This must be what he meant by things like, "concepts of a plan"

Here is the kind of leverage offered by options. SPY is the ticker for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the S&P index. This is for the 502 strike Call Option expiring 4/9/25. Since it is "at the money," this is a relatively low-leverage trade.

#WTF #FollowTheMoney #DemandAnswers

Here is the kind of leverage offered by options. SPY is the ticker for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the S&P index. This is for the 501 strike Call Option expiring 4/9/25. Since it is "at the money," this is a relatively low-leverage trade.

#WTF #FollowTheMoney #DemandAnswers

Because the market-makers were delta-hedging the options volume flowing into the call options buy buying insane amounts of stock.

Here is the kind of leverage offered by options. SPY is the ticker for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the S&P index. This is for the 500 strike Call Option expiring 4/9/25. Since it is "at the money," this is a relatively low-leverage trade.

#WTF #FollowTheMoney #DemandAnswers

By way of example: Here is the kind of leverage offered by options. SPY is the ticker for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the S&P index. This is for the 537 strike Call Option expiring 04/09/2025.

#WTF #FollowTheMoney #DemandAnswers

I'm going to begin posting these screenshots of Call Options by way of example, for people to understand the leverage these instruments offer, and the opportunity extreme news presents. Some people know how to trade this; most people don't.

SPY intraday call charts expiring Apr 09, 2025 — strikes 540–549. Captured manually from the Tastytrade platform (no affiliation) to preserve price & volume data during a historic market surge.

Free to use/share.

#options #SPY #0DTE #volatility #marketstructure

SPY intraday call charts expiring Apr 09, 2025 — strikes 530–539. Captured manually from the Tastytrade platform (no affiliation) to preserve price & volume data during a historic market surge.

Free to use/share.

#options #SPY #0DTE #volatility #marketstructure

SPY intraday call charts expiring Apr 09, 2025 — strikes 520–529. Captured manually from the Tastytrade platform (no affiliation) to preserve price & volume data during a historic market surge.

Free to use/share.

#options #SPY #0DTE #volatility #marketstructure

SPY intraday call charts expiring Apr 09, 2025 — strikes 510–519. Captured manually from the Tastytrade platform (no affiliation) to preserve price & volume data during a historic market surge.

Free to use/share.

#options #SPY #0DTE #volatility #marketstructure

SPY intraday call charts expiring Apr 09, 2025 — strikes 500–509. Captured manually from the Tastytrade platform (no affiliation) to preserve price & volume data during a historic market surge.

Free to use/share.

#options #SPY #0DTE #volatility #marketstructure

Whatever you did, bravo! (unless it was hateful towards kittens, or marginalized groups of people, of course...)

This is my first post, hey BlueSky!