Also, wenn sich die in dem untenstehend verlinkten Artikel geäusserten Bemerkungen irgendwann als zutreffend erweisen sollten...dann Gute Nacht!
Noch kann das wohl nicht endgültig bewiesen werden, was hier von einem langjährigen Optionshändler ausgeführt wird, doch im Grunde sagt er nichts anderes, als dass das Bear Stearns-Grounding alles andere als mit ganz glühendheisser Nadel gestrickt war, sondern bereits einige Zeit zuvor in der Pipeline lag. Allein das genaue Procedere stand bis kurz vor Bekanntgabe des spektakulären Bail Out-Deals noch nicht fest. Es scheint jedenfalls, dass der Aktion höchst merkwürdige und unglaublich profitable Geschäfte mit Put-Optionen in zwei Etappen vorausgingen, die der Autor genau auflistet. So gelangt er zu der Auffassung, dass sich Insider mit Kenntnissen über die Pläne der FED sehr genau auf diese scheinbar überraschende Aktion vorbereiten und davon profitieren konnten. Oder doch vielleicht etwas zu verschwörungstheoretisch? Time will tell us:
In this article John makes the case that the Bear Stearns collapse was artificially created so that insiders could take large short positions in Bear Stearns stock prior and so that J.P. Morgan would in effect be paid $55 Billion of US tax payer money to shore up themselves and to buy Bear Stearns.
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But this scenario has enormous implications. It means that the deal was already arranged on March 10 or before. That contradicts the scenario that is promoted by SEC Chairman Cox, Fed Chairman Bernanke, Bear CEO Schwartz, Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan (who sits on the Board of directors for the New York Federal Reserve Bank) and others that false rumors undermined the confidence in Bear Stearns making the company crash, notwithstanding their adequate liquidity days before. I would say that the deal was arranged months before but the final terms and times were not determined until maybe March 7 or 8, 2008.
For example, between March 11-14 inclusive, there was 20,000 contracts traded in the April 20s, 3700 contracts traded in the April 22.5s, and 8000 contracts traded in the April 25s. In the March 25s there were 79,000 contracts traded between March 11-14, 2008.
Question: Why did the options exchanges not open the far out of the money puts for trading the first time that BSC hit 70, when the Aprils and Marchs had far more time to expiration. Certainly if the requesters were legitimate hedgers or speculators, buying the March and April with two and three months to expiration was more appealing.
Answer: The insiders were not ready to collapse the stock and did not request the exchanges to open the new series then.
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