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With that out of the way, let’s review some­thing impor­tant that hap­pened last year, when big cap tech stocks like Tes­la and Apple start­ed exhibit­ing unusu­al volatil­i­ty to the upside. It turned out that Soft­bank, one of the largest insti­tu­tion­al investors in the world, had been exe­cut­ing a dan­ger­ous strat­e­gy of buy­ing record amounts of out of the mon­ey call options on those stocks. Their actions forced some of the options trad­ing estab­lish­ment into some­thing called a gam­ma squeeze, a pos­i­tive feed­back loop that can be thought of as the options mar­kets’ equiv­a­lent of a short squeeze.