Mellow - You left out the ~9,500 call contract volume today at the $17 strike expiring this week.
In the absence of anyone else chiming in, I’d say that it’s difficult to understand, at this moment, what the potential methods are behind the madness due to the many different possibilities.
The refreshed OI tomorrow morning would start to clear things up. Different things can be happening depending on how those settle.
If anyone has any insight into the individual chunks of volume, it would definitely help clarify some of this.
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