Jul. 15 at 4:43 PM
$QBTS This tactic, known in trading as "pinning the strike" or "gamma manipulation," involves market makers or large institutional investors intentionally pushing a stock price toward a specific strike price right before options expiry. [1, 2, 3]
The goal is to force options contracts—especially large pools of out-of-the-money (OTM) calls or puts—to expire worthless. This allows the writers of those options (who sold them for a premium) to keep the maximum profit
