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  Investors Pile into Moonshot SpaceX Bets as First-Day Options Trading Shatters Records
  SpaceX options were trading about 10,000 contracts per minute early on Tuesday, according to one Cboe executive.
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On Tuesday, it followed that up with the biggest debut in the history of the U.S. options market.</p><p>Contracts tied to SpaceX officially launched on Tuesday, with the first crop of options set to expire on Thursday. According to one senior executive at Cboe Global Markets, a major options-exchange operator, SpaceX options saw the most aggressive first-day trading activity ever.</p><p>“We’re seeing record first day of trading activity in SpaceX options — traded about 10,000 contracts per minute early on, now tracking toward [about] 2 million total volume,” Henry Schwartz, vice president of derivatives market intelligence at Cboe, told MarketWatch via email.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The previous first-day record was set by <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/META\">Meta</a> in 2012, when around 364,000 contracts traded on Day 1. But average daily trading volume in the U.S. options market has risen substantially since then, according to data from the Options Clearing Corp., a U.S. options-market clearinghouse.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Based on data from Apex Fintech Solutions, SpaceX options represented the third-largest single-stock options holding among Apex clients, trailing only <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TSLA\">Tesla</a> and <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NVDA\">Nvidia</a>. Apex provides back-end custody and clearing services for many large electronic-brokerage platforms, like <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SOFI\">SoFi Technologies</a>.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Investors gravitated toward bullish call options. The put-call ratio for SpaceX stood at around 0.7, meaning trading volume in puts was 30% lower than activity in calls, according to FactSet data. In the U.S., a call option gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy a stock at a given price before the contract expires. Put options give the holder the right, but not the obligation, to sell.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Calls with a strike price of $220 that were due to expire on Thursday were the most popular. About 60,000 changed hands on Tuesday, according to FactSet data. <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/OPT/SPCX%2020260618%20220.0%20CALL\" title=\"SPCX 20260618 220.0 CALL\" target=\"_blank\">SPCX 20260618 220.0 CALL</a></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But even more remarkable was the heavy volume in $380 strike calls due to expire on Thursday. As of the closing bell, more than 30,000 had traded. For these contacts to deliver a payoff for investors, SpaceX shares would need to rise by more than 80% before the market closes on Thursday. The U.S. equity market is closed on Friday for the Juneteenth holiday. <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/OPT/SPCX%2020260618%20380.0%20CALL\" title=\"SPCX 20260618 380.0 CALL\" target=\"_blank\">SPCX 20260618 380.0 CALL</a></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Schwartz also highlighted one conspicuously large bullish bet: A single trader bought 7,000 calls with a strike price of $325 that were set to expire in July. SpaceX shares would need to rise by more than 50% for those to wind up in the money.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">SpaceX shares finished Tuesday at $201,80, up 49.5% from their IPO price of $135, Dow Jones Market Data showed. On Tuesday, the shares tacked on 4.8%.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Exactly how the customers buying these options intended to use them was less clear. A couple of derivatives-market experts told MarketWatch that, given the heavy volume, these contracts were likely being used to help manage risk, rather than to play for a moonshot payoff.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“I suspect a lot of those calls are being sold,” said Brent Kochuba, founder of SpotGamma.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Some might be holding those out-of-the-money calls as part of a more complex multi-leg options strategy, said Mike Treacy, head market analyst and vice president of risk at Apex.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“The 380-strike buyer is likely part of a larger complex options position that requires purchasing that strike for risk management purposes, rather than a straightforward directional contract,” Treacy told MarketWatch via email.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A bevy of leveraged exchange-traded funds tied to SpaceX made their debut on Monday and have already seen huge demand. 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On Tuesday, it followed that up with the biggest debut in the history of the U.S. options market.</p><p>Contracts tied to SpaceX officially launched on Tuesday, with the first crop of options set to expire on Thursday. According to one senior executive at Cboe Global Markets, a major options-exchange operator, SpaceX options saw the most aggressive first-day trading activity ever.</p><p>“We’re seeing record first day of trading activity in SpaceX options — traded about 10,000 contracts per minute early on, now tracking toward [about] 2 million total volume,” Henry Schwartz, vice president of derivatives market intelligence at Cboe, told MarketWatch via email.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The previous first-day record was set by <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/META\">Meta</a> in 2012, when around 364,000 contracts traded on Day 1. But average daily trading volume in the U.S. options market has risen substantially since then, according to data from the Options Clearing Corp., a U.S. options-market clearinghouse.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Based on data from Apex Fintech Solutions, SpaceX options represented the third-largest single-stock options holding among Apex clients, trailing only <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TSLA\">Tesla</a> and <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NVDA\">Nvidia</a>. Apex provides back-end custody and clearing services for many large electronic-brokerage platforms, like <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SOFI\">SoFi Technologies</a>.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Investors gravitated toward bullish call options. The put-call ratio for SpaceX stood at around 0.7, meaning trading volume in puts was 30% lower than activity in calls, according to FactSet data. In the U.S., a call option gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy a stock at a given price before the contract expires. Put options give the holder the right, but not the obligation, to sell.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Calls with a strike price of $220 that were due to expire on Thursday were the most popular. About 60,000 changed hands on Tuesday, according to FactSet data. <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/OPT/SPCX%2020260618%20220.0%20CALL\" title=\"SPCX 20260618 220.0 CALL\" target=\"_blank\">SPCX 20260618 220.0 CALL</a></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">But even more remarkable was the heavy volume in $380 strike calls due to expire on Thursday. As of the closing bell, more than 30,000 had traded. For these contacts to deliver a payoff for investors, SpaceX shares would need to rise by more than 80% before the market closes on Thursday. The U.S. equity market is closed on Friday for the Juneteenth holiday. <a href=\"https://ttm.financial/OPT/SPCX%2020260618%20380.0%20CALL\" title=\"SPCX 20260618 380.0 CALL\" target=\"_blank\">SPCX 20260618 380.0 CALL</a></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Schwartz also highlighted one conspicuously large bullish bet: A single trader bought 7,000 calls with a strike price of $325 that were set to expire in July. SpaceX shares would need to rise by more than 50% for those to wind up in the money.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">SpaceX shares finished Tuesday at $201,80, up 49.5% from their IPO price of $135, Dow Jones Market Data showed. On Tuesday, the shares tacked on 4.8%.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Exactly how the customers buying these options intended to use them was less clear. A couple of derivatives-market experts told MarketWatch that, given the heavy volume, these contracts were likely being used to help manage risk, rather than to play for a moonshot payoff.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“I suspect a lot of those calls are being sold,” said Brent Kochuba, founder of SpotGamma.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Some might be holding those out-of-the-money calls as part of a more complex multi-leg options strategy, said Mike Treacy, head market analyst and vice president of risk at Apex.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">“The 380-strike buyer is likely part of a larger complex options position that requires purchasing that strike for risk management purposes, rather than a straightforward directional contract,” Treacy told MarketWatch via email.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">A bevy of leveraged exchange-traded funds tied to SpaceX made their debut on Monday and have already seen huge demand. Dozens of other actively managed ETFs have also bought shares of SpaceX, according to Eric Balchunas of Bloomberg Intelligence.</p><p>Treacy said SpaceX’s small free float — the number of shares freely available to trade by the public — was likely helping magnify the stock’s gains. Only about 4% of total SpaceX shares are currently available to trade, he said.</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://dowjonesnews.com/newdjn/logon.aspx?AL=N","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2644879858","content_text":"The records keep coming for SpaceX.On Friday, SpaceX clinched the biggest initial public offering in the history of the U.S. equity market, raising more than $85 billion. On Tuesday, it followed that up with the biggest debut in the history of the U.S. options market.Contracts tied to SpaceX officially launched on Tuesday, with the first crop of options set to expire on Thursday. According to one senior executive at Cboe Global Markets, a major options-exchange operator, SpaceX options saw the most aggressive first-day trading activity ever.“We’re seeing record first day of trading activity in SpaceX options — traded about 10,000 contracts per minute early on, now tracking toward [about] 2 million total volume,” Henry Schwartz, vice president of derivatives market intelligence at Cboe, told MarketWatch via email.The previous first-day record was set by Meta in 2012, when around 364,000 contracts traded on Day 1. But average daily trading volume in the U.S. options market has risen substantially since then, according to data from the Options Clearing Corp., a U.S. options-market clearinghouse.Based on data from Apex Fintech Solutions, SpaceX options represented the third-largest single-stock options holding among Apex clients, trailing only Tesla and Nvidia. Apex provides back-end custody and clearing services for many large electronic-brokerage platforms, like SoFi Technologies.Investors gravitated toward bullish call options. The put-call ratio for SpaceX stood at around 0.7, meaning trading volume in puts was 30% lower than activity in calls, according to FactSet data. In the U.S., a call option gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy a stock at a given price before the contract expires. Put options give the holder the right, but not the obligation, to sell.Calls with a strike price of $220 that were due to expire on Thursday were the most popular. About 60,000 changed hands on Tuesday, according to FactSet data. SPCX 20260618 220.0 CALLBut even more remarkable was the heavy volume in $380 strike calls due to expire on Thursday. As of the closing bell, more than 30,000 had traded. For these contacts to deliver a payoff for investors, SpaceX shares would need to rise by more than 80% before the market closes on Thursday. The U.S. equity market is closed on Friday for the Juneteenth holiday. SPCX 20260618 380.0 CALLSchwartz also highlighted one conspicuously large bullish bet: A single trader bought 7,000 calls with a strike price of $325 that were set to expire in July. SpaceX shares would need to rise by more than 50% for those to wind up in the money.SpaceX shares finished Tuesday at $201,80, up 49.5% from their IPO price of $135, Dow Jones Market Data showed. On Tuesday, the shares tacked on 4.8%.Exactly how the customers buying these options intended to use them was less clear. A couple of derivatives-market experts told MarketWatch that, given the heavy volume, these contracts were likely being used to help manage risk, rather than to play for a moonshot payoff.“I suspect a lot of those calls are being sold,” said Brent Kochuba, founder of SpotGamma.Some might be holding those out-of-the-money calls as part of a more complex multi-leg options strategy, said Mike Treacy, head market analyst and vice president of risk at Apex.“The 380-strike buyer is likely part of a larger complex options position that requires purchasing that strike for risk management purposes, rather than a straightforward directional contract,” Treacy told MarketWatch via email.A bevy of leveraged exchange-traded funds tied to SpaceX made their debut on Monday and have already seen huge demand. Dozens of other actively managed ETFs have also bought shares of SpaceX, according to Eric Balchunas of Bloomberg Intelligence.Treacy said SpaceX’s small free float — the number of shares freely available to trade by the public — was likely helping magnify the stock’s gains. Only about 4% of total SpaceX shares are currently available to trade, he said.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"LOFF":0.6,"SPCH":0.6,"SSPC":0.6,"SPCF":0.6,"SPCQ":0.6,"SPCG":0.6,"SPCX":1.98,"SPCM":0.6,"SPAX":0.6}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":84,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"defaultTab":"posts","isTTM":true}