[Eagle Forgotten]

“NASDAQ:DJT is option traded on the CBOE, I’d buy puts if I thought it was going to tank.”

An interesting point — but you can’t buy puts unless someone is willing to sell. It seems that most of the purchasers who are bullish on DJT stock are small investors who don’t get into anything as sophisticated as options trading. Institutions that are bearish would want to buy puts, not sell.

I’m one of those small investors who don’t get into options trading, lol. Is there a way to find out if a lot of puts (or calls) are being traded, and at what price?

[spacejunkie2001]

the problem here is not puts, it’s naked short selling and they’ve been caught and exposed, big time.

[Mouton]

Check the open interest. That would be the number of contracts to sell.

Meanwhile allegedly one must be able to borrow stock to short sell it. I recall my BIL complaining that his company had more stock shown as shorted than the entire float of the entire company. Nothing was done about it but the shorts caused the insider owners to lose a lot of money delaying their ability to issue a secondary or borrow.

[CapandBall]

An interesting point — but you can’t buy puts unless someone is willing to sell

Options are derivatives… at the right price everything is for sale.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DJT/options