The most crowded bet on Apple’s December options board is not a bet on Apple going up. It is the $250 put, which carries 27,577 contracts of open interest — the largest single put position on the 18 December 2026 expiry, and roughly 1.35 times the open interest sitting on the $350 call, the biggest
Tesla’s December options board prices a 37% rally and a 31% collapse as very nearly the same bet. The $500 call, 37.4% above Friday’s close, carries a risk-neutral probability of about 10.5%. The $250 put, 31.3% below it, prices at about 10.8%. Both are heavily owned — 17,062 and 11,341 contracts of open interest on
Nvidia is the cheapest it has been relative to its own growth since the AI trade began, and that is the least interesting thing about it. At $216.85 the stock trades on roughly 21.7 times forward earnings while guiding to 85% revenue growth. The interesting thing is what appeared in the accounts three months ago:
Updated 21 August 2026 Vistra (NYSE: VST) traded at $140.10 in the pre-market on 21 August 2026, up 0.83%, after closing at $138.94 on 20 August, down 2.63%, per stockanalysis.com. Market capitalisation is about $46.63 billion and the one-year range runs $132.66 to $219.82. Verdict: the operating business is compounding and the share price is
Updated 21 August 2026 Constellation Energy (NASDAQ: CEG) traded at $275.75 in the pre-market on 21 August 2026, up 1.04%, after closing at $272.92 on 20 August, down 0.46%, per stockanalysis.com. Market capitalisation is about $96.70 billion and the one-year range runs $228.63 to $412.70. Verdict: a rare case where the company raised guidance and
Bitcoin’s sudden jump wasn’t just about Bitcoin, it started in the U.S. bond market. The U.S. Treasury announced that it would buy back more long-term government bonds, increasing the size of its buyback operations from around $2 billion to at least $4 billion. This pushed long-term bond yields lower. When government bond yields fall, assets
Zcash cryptocurrency can be expected to correct down once it reaches next resistance level 637.00 – with the target of the downward correction standing at formed high at 637.00. Zcash approaching major resistance level 683.00 Likely to correct down to at 637.00 Zcash cryptocurrency has been rising sharply inside the active minor impulse wave 3
Gold can be expected to rise further to the next resistance level 4600.00 – which reversed the price at the end of May. Gold resistance level 4400.00 Likely to rise to resistance level 4600.00 Gold recently broke the resistance zone lying at the intersection of the resistance level 4400.00 (former strong support from May, which
US Treasury buybacks sank long-term yields and weakened the dollar, while hawkish Fed minutes and Middle East tensions moved commodities. US Treasury Expands Longer-Dated Debt Buybacks to Support Market Liquidity The United States Department of the Treasury has announced a decisive maneuver to intervene in the long end of the yield curve by doubling the
Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) closed at $174.38 on 19 August 2026, up $111.42 — a gain of 176.97% in a single session — after the company and Merck announced that their personalised mRNA cancer therapy had succeeded in a Phase 3 trial. The move added roughly $44.5 billion of market value in one day and made