Buyers paid a combined $15.9 million premium for call options that give the holder the right to purchase $Trump Media & Technology (DJT.US)$ shares by Jan. 17, three days before the inauguration of the victor in the November presidential race.
Donald J. Trump, the biggest shareholder of the company whose ticker is patterned after his initials, is running for the top post in the US elections in a rematch against curre...

Whales sold a combined $11.7 million in short positions on $GameStop (GME.US)$ that could benefit if the shares slump below $20 before the contracts turn into so-called zero-day-to-expiration (0DTE) options.
As of 10:42 a.m. Thursday, nine block trades were posted, each carrying a premium of more than $1.2 million. The sellers sold a combined 9,000 contracts that give the holders the right to sell a total of 900,000 shares ...

(Here's an update to the options I wrote about earlier this week for readers who are curious whether those positions paid off.)
$GameStop (GME.US)$ call option holders got crushed as zero-days-to-expiration (0DTE) contracts quickly lose their value amid an extended stock sell-off that sent the share price back to its level before meme-stock guru Roaring Kitty returned to social media X and sparked a frenzy.
GameStop shares ...