Riot Platforms's Options: A Look at What the Big Money is Thinking

Whales with a lot of money to spend have taken a noticeably bullish stance on Riot Platforms.

Looking at options history for Riot Platforms (NASDAQ:RIOT) we detected 20 trades.

If we consider the specifics of each trade, it is accurate to state that 50% of the investors opened trades with bullish expectations and 50% with bearish.

From the overall spotted trades, 5 are puts, for a total amount of $180,684 and 15, calls, for a total amount of $776,903.

Projected Price Targets

Taking into account the Volume and Open Interest on these contracts, it appears that whales have been targeting a price range from $8.0 to $40.0 for Riot Platforms over the last 3 months.

Volume & Open Interest Trends

Assessing the volume and open interest is a strategic step in options trading. These metrics shed light on the liquidity and investor interest in Riot Platforms's options at specified strike prices. The forthcoming data visualizes the fluctuation in volume and open interest for both calls and puts, linked to Riot Platforms's substantial trades, within a strike price spectrum from $8.0 to $40.0 over the preceding 30 days.

Riot Platforms 30-Day Option Volume & Interest Snapshot

Noteworthy Options Activity:

Symbol PUT/CALL Trade Type Sentiment Exp. Date Strike Price Total Trade Price Open Interest Volume
RIOT CALL TRADE BULLISH 03/15/24 $15.00 $190.0K 3.6K 157
RIOT CALL SWEEP BEARISH 02/16/24 $16.00 $73.2K 1.4K 328
RIOT CALL TRADE BULLISH 03/15/24 $14.00 $63.0K 2.0K 5
RIOT PUT TRADE BEARISH 01/12/24 $15.00 $60.5K 2.5K 19
RIOT CALL TRADE BULLISH 04/19/24 $8.00 $51.4K 1.0K 0

About Riot Platforms

Riot Platforms Inc is a vertically integrated Bitcoin mining company focused on building, supporting, and operating blockchain technologies. Distributed blockchain technology is a decentralized and encrypted ledger that is designed to offer a secure, efficient, verifiable, and permanent way of storing records and other information without the need for intermediaries. It serves as a medium of exchange, store of value, or unit of account. The company's segments include Bitcoin Mining; Data Center Hosting and Engineering. It generates maximum revenue from the Bitcoin Mining segment.

Following our analysis of the options activities associated with Riot Platforms, we pivot to a closer look at the company's own performance.

Current Position of Riot Platforms

  • Trading volume stands at 15,361,701, with RIOT's price up by 1.6%, positioned at $15.28.
  • RSI indicators show the stock to be may be approaching overbought.
  • Earnings announcement expected in 56 days.

Options are a riskier asset compared to just trading the stock, but they have higher profit potential. Serious options traders manage this risk by educating themselves daily, scaling in and out of trades, following more than one indicator, and following the markets closely.

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