Andrew Giovinazzi
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Andrew Giovinazzi
@OptionVol
Pres. for Option Pit 15 Year Floor Trader on the CBOE and PCX. Group One/HCM Trading options since 1989.





Ben Stiller walks past a homeless man right in front of MSG for Knicks game In liberal cities homelessness is just background noise like taxis and sirens This week one of these maniacs stabbed 5 people at Penn Station We shouldn’t have to live like this x.com/RyanFieldABC/s…

JUST IN: Democrats soar near an all-time high in the odds to take the House at midterms. 82% chance.


Perhaps the most wild business paper you’ll ever read. “Examination of the option trading leading up to September 11 reveals that there was an unusually high level of put buying. This finding is consistent with informed investors having traded options in advance of the attacks.” “The maximum value of this measure for AMR or UAL during the target period is at the 0.99 quantile of its daily distribution and the 0.96 quantile of the distribution of its greatest daily values over four trade date windows.” TLDR: The level of put buying on American and United Airlines in the days before 9/11 was greater than roughly 99% of all comparable trading days in the historical record.








“At UC San Diego, the number of freshmen failing to meet high-school math standards grew nearly 30-fold between 2020 and 2025. By fall 2025, 1 of 12 entering students was placed into remedial math to learn material taught in elementary and middle school” wsj.com/opinion/the-un…












