SpaceX just broke out of a multi-week range, and the options tape lit up: about 8.63 million dollars of near-the-money October calls, plus a second aggressive sweep, both bought at the ask, both bullish, but telling entirely different stories. The big October trade landed at a strike that had almost no open interest, roughly 59 times the existing contracts traded in it, fresh positioning in a line that was basically empty.
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Chapters
00:00 8 million in SpaceX calls
00:16 Breaking out of the range
00:43 The post-IPO round trip
01:18 The big October call
01:51 59 times the open interest
02:30 The smaller November call
03:18 The calendar is the tell
03:43 Two bets, two catalysts
04:10 Why the October buyer needs momentum
05:21 The comically wide analy...