Smashing Volatility

Smashing Volatility

TSLA OPEX Pattern/Trade

A rise from the ashes of earnings was predictable

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Scott Murray
Aug 12, 2025
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When a heavily options traded stock gets clobbered, as TSLA rightly deserved after poor sales and earnings numbers, it’s often the call deltas eroding that results in dealers selling their long stock hedges. Yet, that left for dead call gamma, as we near opex, it can reignite the stock.

So, first, here were all those left for dead calls sitting there for…

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