{"id":65414,"date":"2018-08-26T09:31:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T13:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65414"},"modified":"2018-08-27T23:02:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T03:02:36","slug":"backing-elon-musks-dream-option-traders-bet-on-tesla-at-430","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2018\/backing-elon-musks-dream-option-traders-bet-on-tesla-at-430.html","title":{"rendered":"Backing Elon Musk&#8217;s Dream, Option Traders Bet on Tesla at $430"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Not everyone is giving up on Elon Musk\u2019s dream of transforming Tesla Inc. into a private company. Options to buy the automaker\u2019s shares at above his suggested $420 take-private level were among the most heavily traded on Wednesday &#8212; and they gained in price, even as the stock dipped modestly. The volume on December calls at a $430 strike jumped by more than 7,000 percent, making it the fifth-most active put or call on the company\u2019s shares and the only contract in the top 10 for which the price increased.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-08-23\/backing-elon-musk-s-dream-option-traders-bet-on-tesla-at-430\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Not everyone is giving up on Elon Musk\u2019s dream of transforming Tesla Inc. into a private company. Options to buy the automaker\u2019s shares at above his suggested $420 take-private level were among the most heavily traded on Wednesday &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65415,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65414\/revisions\/65415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}