Rivian Automotive, Inc. (RIVN) is so hot in news and social media that many of the normal tools people use are almost irrelevant this morning. Since last night’s close, the company announced that it will receive a $5 Billion cash infusion from its new partner Volkswagon Group. This caused a huge upmove in RIVN’s stock price and volatility expectations for this Friday, June 28th to spike even higher. By the way, social media mentions are up 10,125% in the last 24 hours. 

It is especially difficult to value options when a $12 stock is suddenly up to $17 since the close yesterday. The good news is that through this service you have access to professional analysts that specialize in options valuation. When normal tools fail, we are still able to use our more advanced capabilities to accurately estimate options prices and find trades that will provide us with an edge.

As of this writing, RIVN is up over 42%. This is such a large move that yesterday’s options data needs a great deal of expert help to make sense of where options prices may be at the open today.  

This Volatility Term Structure from yesterday’s close show that the options that expire this Friday, June 28th are the most expensive in relative terms. To learn more about Volatility Term Structure, click here. The at-the-money implied volatility at the close yesterday was 70.88. We expect a significant increase in IV when the options market opens for trading in a few minutes.

RIVN’s stock price launched over 42% in pre-open trading after they announced a partnership with Volkswagon Group that will provide a $5 Billion cash infusion. Volatility expectations and options prices also spiked making it difficult to value options that are certainly more expensive than they were at yesterday’s close. Through manual analysis we were able to find an edge in selling options in a limited risk trade that will have a high probability of success.  

To get the details on today’s trade, be sure to read today’s ODDS Online Daily Option Trade Idea.

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Thank you,

Don Fishback