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by MattGaiser 2053 days ago
That's not hard to know. Any of them would move more than Pfizer. They have been swinging around since the pandemic arrived. All the cruise lines soared the last time talk of a vaccine happened as well, while Zoom fell.
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Why does Zoom go up on vaccine news?
It doesn’t. Buying a put option is a bet it will decline because it’s the right to sell a stock at a given price.
It didn't. It went down, crashed pretty hard. I don't think it was the only factor, though.
Zoom would go down, sorry. I was thinking of cruise lines. Pick any one of them and you would profit handsomely. But as others are saying, you can also bet on the stock going down.
I didn't, hence the OP said "put options on Zoom" - that would mean he would make money from Zoom diving (which it did).
The comment I responded to said that "Zoom soared" which is why I asked.
It doesn't. It goes down.
Presumably you've made at least 500k in trading vs cruse lines and on zoom then?
If I had known about the Pfizer announcement beforehand? Yeah, I would have.
You need the inside info of when vaccine news is coming out FFS. How is this so hard to follow?
Ah. Nvm I'm another blind guy who didn't see you said puts on zoom.
But he didn't know about the vaccine news ahead of time