Hey, Ross here:
Options activity has been going crazy recently.
Take a look.
Chart of the Day
This chart counts put contracts traded each day. That spike on the right is Thursday – the busiest day for puts in Cboe history.
With stocks sliding, traders were scrambling to buy puts.
A put lets you sell shares at a set price, even if the stock keeps falling – effectively allowing you to protect yourself against a price decline.
But on Thursday, that protection got expensive in a hurry.
According to Mercury Alerts data reported by Reuters, traders were paying roughly twice the usual premium for puts.
You can see why someone who owned stocks wanted that protection by Thursday’s close.
But just because you owned the protection doesn’t mean you came out ahead.
Insight of the Day
You can call the selloff right and still lose money
A put costs money.
If you hold it until it expires, the stock has to fall far enough below your agreed selling price to cover what you paid.
Only then are you ahead.
Pay up for that put AFTER a selloff and you’re asking a lot of the next drop.
A few more bad days for the stock might barely get you back to even.
That’s why I’m not really that interested when people start buying puts after or even during a major selloff.
I’m more interested when one stock’s options start trading heavily BEFORE there’s a headline to explain it.
Because following unusual options activity like these has led us to stock moves like 317% in two weeks… 244% in nine days… and 806% in just six days.
That’s why in just a few hours at 11 a.m. Eastern…
I’m going LIVE to show you exactly how to spot these anomalous trades for yourself…
So you can use them to target huge price moves no one else sees coming.
And with options activity going absolutely crazy right now…
This is the time to search for these profitable anomalies.
So click here to lock in your free seat if you haven’t already…
And I’ll see you in just a bit at 11 a.m. ET sharp.
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