MSB Trading 2021 - paradigm shift, page-3732

@Pledge, LoL, interesting that your "diagnosis" comes right on the heels of the conversation I was having with GroupInvestor on the Yahoo board. The echoing continues. I'll remind you that you engaged me in conversation. If you don't want to hear back from me, let's see if you can restrain yourself from answering this post.

To the rest of the board, I am interested in hearing about option trading in Australia. Is it available for MSB? What kinds of volumes are generated? Again, the poster GroupInvestor who seems to be Australian, has posted on Yahoo that trading put options is a major factor moving the share price down and is akin to short selling. Option volumes on the US market are not high enough imo to have any significant impact on share price of a stock trading millions of shares daily on two continents. But any other opinions would be appreciated. To clarify my earlier post, the put options I wrote in early August 2020 were primarily for the $7.50 strike. When the stock rebounded, I wrote covered calls on an equal number of shares primarily at the $25 strike. So, it would be more accurate to say the options were paired, not "matching". In any event they all expired unexercised in October leaving me with over $6/share in gains from the premiums. As I posted on Yahoo, I am morally opposed to shorting any company engaged in human clinical trials. I don't see options and option hedging in the same light. Opinions?