No, I own put options on SIVB itself.
Trading was halted in premarket and has yet to reopen. Honestly, it's disgusting. The amount of profit I would have made would be more than life-changing at a time when I could really use the money.
Trading was halted in premarket and has yet to reopen. Honestly, it's disgusting. The amount of profit I would have made would be more than life-changing at a time when I could really use the money.
Thing is though, that's the whole point of banking stress tests and also why the Fed should have raised rates much sooner after COVID.
On a side note, the fact that VCs were giving out tons of money to lots of companies at crazy valuation multiples, that had no reason to exist, much less take in millions of investment...is definitely part of this whole mess. Banks and VCs need to do a lot more due diligence before just giving out money.
On that - interest rates need to be reasonable to make sure people who want to save their money get an appropriate return. 0% or near-0% is just financially irresponsible to those of us who remember getting 5-10% annually in our savings accounts.
So... what happens now? It would seem that the obvious thing is you'd make a boatload of money, but will you be prevented from ever collecting that if the stock doesn't trade again?