Re:Cisco Acquires Splunk
by secfirstmd on Thursday September 21, 2023 @04:26PM
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Possibly. I guess you can't remove the idea that the information was found through some open means. For all we know the private jets of the Cisco leaders might have been in the same location as those from Splunk.
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They bought 1-day options, so they knew the timing of the announcement.
Re:Cisco Acquires Splunk
by secfirstmd on Thursday September 21, 2023 @04:46PM
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Yeah true. Pretty hard to figure out that accurately from open sources.
I don't have the knowledge or the patience to find out, but it would be interesting see the overall pattern of 1 day calls on Splunk stock to see if this was an outlier.
Did anyone do the same the two days ago? (but just did't make any money yesterday ?). What about 100 days ago ? And so on.
It is certainly no secret that Cisco wanted to buy Splunk for $20BN in Februart 2022
Re:Cisco Acquires Splunk
by arcticbull on Thursday September 21, 2023 @08:30PM
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Sounds like something one of the very special folks on WallStreetBets would have done on the basis of half-baked "dd."
Re:Cisco Acquires Splunk
by ineedasername on Friday September 22, 2023 @06:50AM
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What’s dd?
Due dilligence. Or in the case of wallstreetbets, the illusion of it.
Re:Cisco Acquires Splunk
by johnvanommen on Friday September 22, 2023 @03:18PM
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If the buyer works for Cisco or Splunk, they're going to have a bad time