(Bread #3898)

>>3081071

>Moar interested in the short positions. Curious as to insider activity.

I've put some thought into this, asking someone finance-familiar to help fill in the gaps. They relayed that short interest for Duke Energy, which owns and operates Brunswick, and which is reported monthly on the NYSE website, was 10.5M as of 8/31/18. They also found the following, all I could get out of this turnip, but a decent data haul, nonetheless. Tuesday in this context would be three days before landfall in NC, which was September 11:

"Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK) was the target of unusually large options trading activity on Tuesday. Stock traders purchased 5,244 put options on the stock. This is an increase of 970% compared to the typical volume of 490 put options."

https://www.fairfieldcurrent.com/2018/09/13/duke-energy-target-of-unusually-large-options-trading-duk.html

"Unusually large" suggests this isn't your typical hurricane-chasing put option, unless it is and someone is pumping up the noise, so it would bear doing a search for hurricane-related investing to see if this increase is excepotionally larger. There was also a post somewhere about the same thing happening with the Massachusetts explosions, which in that case there's no heads-up to be got for coming events, so it's a matter of collecting the names of the perps, something I'm not in a position to do, although I am happy to cut and paste here and there.

My concern about the finance side is if it's driven by an intentional event, and how big exactly an event, if so. Information from the NRC report site has to be read in pieces from the little report boxes and then strung together into a limited reality, don't want to spook the livestock, after all

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