GameStop GME Unusual Options Activity BEFORE the Rally! Trader makes MILLIONS — Transcript
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- 0:06hey everybody in this unusual whales
- 0:08trade review video we're going to cover
- 0:11two traders that made Millions during
- 0:13the GameStop Rally from a price of
- 0:16around
- 0:17$17.50 per share to a high of $80 per
- 0:22share in just a couple of
- 0:26days now we first noted unusual options
- 0:29that activity in GameStop on April 25th
- 0:332024 when nearly 3,000 contracts of the
- 0:36$25 call option expiring on May 17th
- 0:40transacted almost entirely at the ask
- 0:44now here we can see the 2915 contracts
- 0:48transacted on the 25th and
- 0:512,374 carried over into open interest
- 0:54confirming to us that these were new
- 0:57positions if we pop open the flow feed
- 1:00from that initial set of orders we can
- 1:02see these fills while gme was trading at
- 1:07$10.98 cents per contract we can also
- 1:11see that this triggered a repeated hits
- 1:13alert on the contract then on Friday
- 1:17April 26th the trader of those initial
- 1:20contracts were already up over
- 1:24150% but instead of taking profit we
- 1:27actually saw that they bought more
- 1:30contracts
- 1:3811,930 28 cents per
- 1:42contract the following trading day we
- 1:44noted that
- 1:4610,128 of those contracts carried over
- 1:49once again confirming to us that new
- 1:51positions opened and stayed open over
- 1:55the next few weeks from there the
- 1:57GameStop rally commenced
- 2:00on May 5th GameStop rose from a price of
- 2:03around $11 per share going into May 6
- 2:08over the weekend to peek out at
- 2:12$17.45 per contract but things weren't
- 2:15over there things really started to take
- 2:18on New Life on May
- 2:2213th
- 2:2420124 on May 12th roaring Kitty also
- 2:27known as Keith Gil and D FV famous for
- 2:31his analysis and presence before and
- 2:33during the 2020 and 2021 GameStop
- 2:36squeeze tweeted for the first time in
- 2:39years this caused the gamestock price to
- 2:42go absolutely
- 2:45Bonkers during the trading day following
- 2:47roaring Kitty's first public appearance
- 2:50in years gme rallied even further from a
- 2:54market close on the 10th of
- 2:58$17.42 all the way up to a high of
- 3:03$382 per share Roar and kitty continued
- 3:06to tweet periodically over the next day
- 3:08and the response from Gamestop was
- 3:14clear on May 14th gme traded as high as
- 3:18$80 per share in pre-market trading now
- 3:22our original position seemed to have
- 3:24taken profit on May 13th selling their
- 3:27position within a range of $74 $2 $113
- 3:31per contract being conservative they
- 3:34exited for around a
- 3:366,000 gain noted by this drop in open
- 3:40interest on the morning of May
- 3:4314th this Trader turned roughly
- 3:46$27,000 into $2 million in just three
- 3:50weeks the contract didn't stop there
- 3:53however and reached a new high of
- 3:56$364 per contract a 30 ,
- 4:02250% rise from those initial orders we
- 4:05noted at 12 cents per contract back in
- 4:08April had this Trader held they'd have
- 4:11made over $10 million on this gme trade
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