It's been a while since I did one of these. This time, $BBIG is the subject of our conversation.
$BBIG saw moves of 20% with a long-standing pattern of repeating squeezes and massive falling wedges. If the trend continues, we may yet see it again.
This is just the beginning NFA
A lot of people made fun of us for this chart, but @AJ_LogicalChaos pointed out something that we frequently talk about in #HellsTradingFloor, and that's Algorithms tipping their hand by demonstrating repeating patterns.
Between these Fib timelines and the repeat wedges...
... I am convinced that $BBIG is being dragged around by a trading algorithm that is looking to profit on both the upswings and downswings on $BBIG.
Given the volume and OBV spike, I'm taking this as a sign that a move to the upside is imminent around 2/04 or earlier.
So as many $BBIG holders know, the biggest catalyst we've been waiting for has been that $BBIG is planning to launch a spinoff NFT company called Cryptyde
This chart (courtesy of @PhaserOccams shows a repeating trend (signs of an algorithm) which uses specific trading signals to push a move on the stock and create a buy signal.
Specifically, the 200 day MA appears significant, where a crossover/bounce off the 200MA is the trigger.
Secondary to that is the HOLY FUCKING MOTHER OF ALL GAMMA RAMPS.
Approximately 31.5% of $BBIG's float of 123.38M shares is on the options chain.
~50K calls are ITM (5M shares)
~341.9K calls are OTM (34.2M shares) up to $10 strike
The amount of money required to move this stock is tiny compared to the enormous number of call options on the chain for this stock, and with the addition of the Short Interest of 25%, $BBIG is primed to exhert more 65% of its float in buying pressure.
We have been analyzing short-exempt data at #HellsTradingFloor, and it shows a correlation between the short exempts and these significant price movements.
This is data from August-September before and during the first squeeze.
Because of the spike today and yesterday, $BBIG is about to trigger 2 of my 3 squeeze signal triggers. I suspect the short exempt ratio will not hit for a few more days:
✅Utilization >95% : 99%
❌Short Exempt Ratio 3%+: 1%
🤏5MA > 15% over 3 days: 13%
Last but not least, let's review Ortex:
The average days on loan of 38 days places the average cost basis for shorts at ~$4.25 at best on Nov 22 before the gap-down.
We have a gap fill from $3.40 - $3.80 on that date, so I'm expecting some consolidation in this range before $4
After $BBIG ended up on the threshold list -again- for a brief period, I'm expecting these short exempts to result in yet another FTD spike in T+6 trading days, just in time for January 21st options expiration.
I'm watching the OBV showing massive divergence on $BBIG's chart, and a breakout of the wedge will mean clear skies for $BBIG.
I believe that January 21st options are a catalyst, but are by no means safe from expiring worthless.
MMs will stop at nothing to keep as many of those calls from expiring ITM as possible, so if you are an options player, $BBIG calls for 1/21 are too dangerous for a gamble of this magnitude.
I'll be choosing Feb 4th and 18th to place my own personal bets.
As always, none of this is financial advice. The important thing is patience. Anything can happen in the market, and anything can happen tomorrow.
Tomorrow may be volatile, it may be boring.
It may be a green day, it may be red, or it may be range-bound.
Something that came to my attention today was the rapid trading of massive blocks on $PROG.
I want to credit u/AwarenessProud1079 for this research, as he has established an interesting link between the original CEO of #PROG and his new affiliations
The OP of this post references "Andrew R. Midler" in his post, and states he wasn't able to establish a link between himself and any entities... but I was.
And my findings were... interesting to say the least.
What makes this interesting isn't just that Andrew Midler appears specifically in Progenity's filings referenced in the redditor's post, but it's the companies Savitr also has an investment in.
As others have pointed out, the cross actually happened yesterday. Today was confirmation and continuation of the trend.
Note that we gapped up in PM and filled that gap this morning before we re-bounded back up to test $2.70, a level of continuous stubborn resistance.
This doesn't mean that every day will be green going forward. What it means is that the stock is likely to enter into a long, ongoing bull-market with prices rising on a long-term trend.
Algos that trade on technicals look for these patterns to find an entry point.
Market maker and hedge fund Hail Mary sell offs continue to attempt to drive down the prices of every meme stock to attack the conviction of everyone in this trade.
This is the ultimate dip before the ultimate rip.
DD to follow
OBV (On-Balance Volume) is an indicator that shows the trend of buying versus selling based on the sum of share trading volume regardless of share price.
It is a general rule of thumb that the OBV rising means buying and OBV falling means selling.
OBV is best used when compared with other indicators to determine share price trend such as MACD, RSI, Bollinger bands, etc.
These are "oscillators" that show when a stock's price is likely to reverse its current direction and predict volatility.
$PROG shorts and market makers are telegraphing a move to the upside. To everyone who is freaking out and calling this a dead play, you're looking at consolidation. Calm TF down...
Wyckoff Accumulation final phase of consolidation is following trend.
Market makers and call sellers still have until Tuesday to make their deliveries. This activity demonstrates an engineered sell-off. They need panic selling in order to scoop up shares on a discount before the next leg up.
The fewer who sell, the less we move to the downside.
We're going to go through some volatility this week as they play their games. T+2 to deliver options and an additional T+6 for market makers to close the outstanding FTDs that result.
Have patience and let the algorithms burn themselves out. They're operating on auto pilot...
Back in the rising channel once again, this time after a hedgie load up and over 150k calls expiring ITM last week. $PROG is still moving aggressively toward a steady climb and short squeeze.
Technicals looking good
Plenty of calls on the chain for this Friday, but pretty modest in comparison to last week. This is a very weak gamma ramp relative to that.
We are still waiting for unhedged calls to be delivered today and tomorrow, so we can see some significant buying today....
... but we will see how it plays out on the charts.
Shorts were not covering last week, which means they were most likely trying to return and re-borrow shares that were failing to deliver.