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Will Meade
@realwillmeade
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Aug 1
Guess who’s back 50 cent VIX Man
Buyer 90,000 $VIX August $21 calls for 52 cents


and then the market dumped


23 posted on 09/15/2019 4:09:16 PM PDT by RummyChick ("Pills, money .. this city is wicked. Your best friend will kill you here." Smoove about Baltimore)
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Kerberos007
@kerberos007
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Aug 21
These “crash” hedges are so “outsized” simply due to the massive scale of “50 Cent” Aug VIX Call Wing positions which Dealers are short—and thus they have been forced to get long a lot of S&P Vega via VIX futs, S&P downside or just “shorts” in Spooz to offset this exposure


25 posted on 09/15/2019 4:11:06 PM PDT by RummyChick ("Pills, money .. this city is wicked. Your best friend will kill you here." Smoove about Baltimore)
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To: RummyChick
Buyer 90,000 $VIX August $21 calls for 52 cents

Can you explain what that means? What is he actually betting will happen?

38 posted on 09/15/2019 4:44:50 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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