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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by bogomipz on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:01PM (#16684529)
>"I'm buying FB call options."

In other words you're anticipating the share price to decline further. This sort of supports the OPs first assertion.

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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by dwrtz on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:11PM (#16684582)
You may be thinking of put options. Buying calls is a bullish position.
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Re:Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers ar... by bogomipz on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:25AM (#16687586)
No I understand how derivatives work. Why bother with options at all if you are so confident it is going back up? Why not pay the spot price if you are that confident it is currently undervalued?
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