The Whale Lures Call Sellers into the Trap
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$GameStop(GME)$ :Verifies an Old Saying: The Craftiest Hunters Disguise Themselves as PreyThe Moment to HuntToday, I saw a comment under GME that someone's out-of-the-money call that they sold got assigned. This unconventional assignment made me smell the scent of the old whales again.This friend discovered a new short stock position in their account, which turned out to be from the $19.5 strike call they sold last week getting assigned.Interestingly, on May 24th, GME closed at $19.00, making those $19.5 calls out-of-the-money. But the stock price got dragged up to $23.4 after-hours, rendering those calls in-the-money based on after-hours pricing.This leads us to conclude: Someone conducted a massive exercise of calls during the after-hours ramp up