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Good night to everyone:
Unusual Whales was created to find these plays.
You can see full $EA flow right on site.
$EA contract picture in comments.
Let's keep building together.
Wow.
JUST BEFORE the announcement that Electronic Arts, $EA, was to go private on Friday, there was $EA 180 calls expiring literally this week on 10/03.
There was early volume at around $0.37 per contract.
They sold for nearly $15.
They made millions.
And today, $EA was announced to acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for $210 per share
Someone always knows.

Good morning to everyone:
Good night to everyone:
Look at this.
JUST BEFORE the announcement that Electronic Arts, $EA, was to go private, there was $EA 180 calls expiring literally next week on 10/03.
They were Early volume at around $0.37 per contract.
They sold for nearly $15.
They made nearly a million in less than a few hours.
Someone always knows.

Good morning to everyone:
Good night to everyone:
Look at this.
JUST BEFORE the announcement that Electronic Arts, $EA, was to go private, there was $EA 180 calls expiring literally next week on 10/03.
They were Early volume at around $0.37 per contract.
They sold for nearly $15.
They made 1.2 million from $30,000 in less than a few hours.
Someone always knows.

Electronic Arts $EA announced that they were nearing a $50 Billion deal to be taken private by a group of investors, including private-equity firm Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund
900 or so of the $EA 180c 10/3 were traded prior to the news for an average of around .37... 900 contracts traded after the news at around 14.00...
~$33,000 -> $1,200,000

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