The Deuce: Someone wrote $31 million of 225 calls and bought $30 million of 205 puts

This SpaceX IPO is just a massive web of fraud, and the more I read about it, the angrier I get. - doubledown June 4, 2026, 19:31:38

SpaceX news - Stu Today, 17:54:57
- Kind of a lot of money for a VS Code fork, but it’s all fake money anyway so whatever. * - doubledown Today, 19:58:41
Musk has enough money to buy all US professional sports teams - Stu Today, 15:17:00
- impressive for a guy who does nothing but weaponize his social platform - OrangeSox Today, 16:50:37
- yeah, but it's not liquid so it doesn't count - Sammich Today, 15:35:28
  - About $100 billion is liquid - Stu Today, 15:40:33
    - The cost of one of those judges is only a really nice RV, a house in Savannah he grew up in.... - KingTalkyTiki Today, 15:45:05
- yeah, but it's not liquid so it doesn't count - Sammich Today, 15:35:28
- Now do it with feeding hungry children. - KingTalkyTiki Today, 15:25:31
  - He could buy 2.4 million middle class homes to house the homeless* - Stu Today, 15:32:25
    - Say what you want about the awfulness of Gilded Age Robber Barons.... - KingTalkyTiki Today, 15:36:10
      - And they at least built a few libraries* - DocWalk20 Today, 19:36:44
      - Musk is the Jay Gould of this crop.* - complainant Today, 17:27:31
Someone wrote $31 million of 225 calls and bought $30 million of 205 puts - jfinsocal Today, 15:01:40

Options action - implied volatility over 200% right now. - jfinsocal Today, 10:37:18
I'm trying to wrap my head around this. I mean who would've foreseen Amazon in 1996? - Stu Today, 9:09:34
- Or Pets.com! - ATL Today, 9:13:34
Generational run * - MC Today, 9:04:07
$200 - timmer Yesterday, 18:25:47
- today I learned it's called Space Exploration Technologies Corp * - ijustkrushalot Today, 9:33:20
- You misspelled 220 - Stu Today, 8:57:07
  - Like I said - ATL Today, 9:08:32
    - OOO - Stu Today, 9:10:14
      - ooo - ATL Today, 9:16:41
- Can I short sell it yet? - TarheelIllini Today, 5:12:35
  - Interest rates for this would be high I imagine - jfinsocal Today, 10:46:45
  - Never short a meme stock with a minuscule float. * - doubledown Today, 8:40:58
    - He asked if he "can." The answer is "yes"* - Stu Today, 9:19:49
  - options should start trading today; close enough if you want to bet on a drop* - Potomac Today, 6:29:11
    - Wall Street is now operating solely on the Greater Fool theory so I really don’t know - ATL Today, 6:41:32
      - Tesla’s stock is still at a P/E ratio of 370, despite there being no remotely plausible scenario… - DT Today, 7:03:09
        
        Yep. They’re both meme stocks, not real businesses. * - ATL Today, 7:28:50
        
        Edit: they’re real businesses, just much smaller than their valuations.* - ATL Today, 7:33:20
- You misspelled 212* - Stu Today, 5:10:24
- To the moon…..* - harb Yesterday, 20:02:04
  - Not on Starship they’re not * - ATL Today, 5:43:36
stonks* :( - Tortillini June 5, 2026, 13:47:53
- The beginning of the techpocalypse!* - Stu June 5, 2026, 14:13:17
the Goldman book says company EBITDA will be $352b on $470b in revenue in 2030. Sounds good!* - cpsteine June 5, 2026, 9:45:24
- Current EBITDA: $6.58 billion - Stu June 5, 2026, 14:05:04
- Seems totally plausible for a company whose valuation is based on AI superiority and - doubledown June 5, 2026, 10:11:20
- That’s pretty good margin.* - DocWalk20 June 5, 2026, 10:05:19
  - Data Centers use less utilities in space due to the no gravity thing. I'm sold.* - Warrin'_Illini June 5, 2026, 10:10:32
    - Too bad they can't be shielded from solar flares - Stu June 5, 2026, 14:02:00
Just saw the S&P news, glad to see sanity prevail.* - Tortillini June 4, 2026, 20:04:46
- Cramer just did a nice piece on that on Mad Money - Potomac June 5, 2026, 17:53:37
  - I nominate this post for the Potomac Hall of Fame.* - complainant June 5, 2026, 18:13:24

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