[aodin]

They bought 1-day options, so they knew the timing of the announcement.

[noselasd]

Did anyone do the same the two days ago? (but just did't make any money yesterday ?). What about 100 days ago ? And so on.

It is certainly no secret that Cisco wanted to buy Splunk for $20BN in Februart 2022

[arcticbull]

Sounds like something one of the very special folks on WallStreetBets would have done on the basis of half-baked "dd."

[ineedasername]

What’s dd?

[giantg2]

Due dilligence. Or in the case of wallstreetbets, the illusion of it.

[secfirstmd]

Yeah true. Pretty hard to figure out that accurately from open sources.

[fatnoah]

I don't have the knowledge or the patience to find out, but it would be interesting see the overall pattern of 1 day calls on Splunk stock to see if this was an outlier.