Option Traders Think Fisker Might Confirm A Bull Break

Fisker Inc FSR gapped up 11% at Tuesday's open from Monday’s close due to two factors aligning.

• Bank of America initiated coverage on Fisker, giving it a Buy rating and a price target of $31.
• The stock has been trading in a bullish falling wedge since Feb. 26 and was set to reach the apex of the wedge Thursday.

When a number of factors align on a stock a large move can happen more easily and on Tuesday morning some options traders noticed the stars were aligning for beaten down Fisker and bet more than $256,944 the stock is going higher.

The Fisker Option Trades: At 9:34 a.m., Tuesday a trader executed a call sweep, near the ask, of 660 Fisker options with a $14 strike price expiring on April 23. The trade represented a $47,520 bullish bet for which the trader paid 72 cents per option contract.

At 9:35 a.m., a trader executed a call sweep, near the ask, of 247 Fisker options with a $14 strike price expiring on April 30. The trade represented a $30,875 bullish bet for which the trader paid $1.25 per option contract.

At 9:35 a.m., a trader executed a call sweep, near the ask, of 275 Fisker options with a $15 strike price expiring on June 18. The trade represented a $46,930 bullish bet for which the trader paid $1.90 per option contract.

At 9:45 a.m., a trader executed a call sweep, near the ask, of 493 Fisker options with a $15 strike price expiring on May 7. The trade represented a $46,342 bullish bet for which the trader paid 94 cents per option contract.

At 9:48 p.m., a trader executed a call sweep, near the ask, of 647 Fisker options with a $15 strike price expiring on April 23. The trade represented a $47,231 bullish bet for which the trader paid 73 cents per option contract.

At 9:58 p.m., a trader executed a call sweep, near the ask, of 373 Fisker options with a $14 strike price expiring on April 23. The trade represented a $38,046 bullish bet for which the trader paid $1.02 per option contract.

The Fisker Chart: Fisker’s stock reached an all-time high of $31.96 on March 2 and has been in a steep downtrend since. There is an identifiable falling wedge around the downtrend, however, which is bullish.

Fisker is trading below both the eight-day and 21-day exponential moving averages (EMAs) with the eight-day EMA trending below the 21-day EMA which is bearish. On Tuesday, when Fisker’s stock broke bullish from the falling wedge, the eight-day EMA acted as resistance and at midday the stock retested the top descending trendline of the falling wedge.

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Bulls want to see Fisker’s stock hold above the falling wedge and for enough bull volume to come into the stock so it can break up over the $14.32 resistance level. If it can break above that resistance, it has room to move towards the $16 mark.

Bears want to see Fisker’s stock fall back into the falling wedge and trend down until it is pushed under support at $11.87. If Fisker were to lose that support level, it could fall further towards $10.95.

FSR Price Action: Shares of Fisker closed up 4.5% at $12.93.