CrowdStrike Sees Big Money Jump Into Options Amid Rising Demand for Hedge Against Price Slump
Big money is jumping into $CrowdStrike(CRWD.US$ put options amid increasing demand for protection against deepening losses as the stock slumps more than 8%.
CrowdStrike's stock fell to $314.56 Friday morning after CEO George Kutz posted on LinkedIn that the company's customers were impacted by a defect found in a content update for Microsoft Windows hosts. The event caused a global outage, forcing airlines to ground flights, and disrupted operations at banks, hospitals and brokerages Schwab and E-Trade in New York, MarketWatch reported.
Put options giving the holders the right to sell Crowdstrike stock at $300 were the most active contracts across 19 expiration dates stretching through Dec. 18, 2026, data tracked by moomoo showed. More than 18,000 of those puts changed hands before 11 a.m. Friday.
In total, 220,190 put and call options with different strike prices traded so far, landing CrowdStrike in the fifth slot for the most-active stock options, behind $NVIDIA(NVDA.US$ , $Tesla(TSLA.US$, $Apple(AAPL.US$and $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD.US$. (To see the options ranking, click here.)
About just half an hour into Friday's trading, a transaction was posted involving an active seller who wrote put options that give the holders the right to sell 313,000 Crowdstrike at $240 each by Sept. 20, data tracked by moomoo showed. The seller stands to collect a premium of $2.1 million for those put options.
(To see the options market page, click here.)
If the holders eventually exercise the puts, the options seller's cost of buying the stock will be that strike price of $240 plus fees, minus the premium paid by the buyer of $6.70 per share. That compares with the stock's current price of more than $300 a share.
Another unusual bullish trade was posted before 10 a.m. Friday involving a buyer who paid a premium of $640,000 for call options that gives him or her the right to buy 100,000 CrowdStrike shares at $400 by Sept. 20, data showed.
Amid the stock sell-off, the stock continues to attract money. Fund inflows outpaced outflows by $545.3 million as of 10:50 a.m. Friday. That's helping trim this month's net outflow from the stock.
Technical indicators tracked by moomoo are also flashing a positive signal, with 10 of them showing that the stock could be oversold and the trend may turn bullish.
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