EA

SuperDaddyPoop

EA Sports ... sold.. private

HayflickLimiter

EA sports just got bought out by a private Saudi Arabia company. Hopefully they can make a better battlefield game for once.

0point42au

Ivanka’s cuckband is selling EA to the Arabs, lol

Yeetberry

PS is the way. Unfortunately all my nephews want a PS5 not a "shitbox" (not my words). The average player could not give a damn about discs as much as a hobby gamer, like look at the GTA6's digital only launch and hype is still pouring in. Funnily enough I was about to buy some EA leaps 3 days before the saudis wanted to buy it out at 210 when it was sitting at 160 because Im a battlefield fan. But i chickened out. From there I dont really look into video games but despite TTWO (GTA 6 publisher) being 'priced in' its gonna be a cash cow

Doodl3s

They just bought EA today already lol

BIGPOTHEAD

7C lottos .04 EA

Singularity-42

He was big into EA, I wouldn't read too much about his involvement with FTX charity. FTX was the biggest EA causes donor. William MacAskill was involved with the FTX charity too.

technologyready14

EA's going private today, and the S&P 500 committee will likely announce a replacement for the Communication Services sector. RDDT's the only choice.

AlmostAsianJim

Top contenders to replace $EA in the SP500: $RDDT $BE Could be announced anytime between today and next week when $EA delists. Reddit could pull the funniest move ever...

imustbegthequestion

Who owns EA? I feel like shorting them. Call me Master Schizo.

ptexpat

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zuziannka

Yes I know but the EA one

calvin_tam

Aschenbrenner was a member of the FTX Future Fund team,[7] an EA philanthropic initiative created by the FTX Foundation,[7] from February 2022 until his resignation prior to FTX's bankruptcy

GammaWinsSam

EA going private at $210 per share. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/29/ea-shareholders-will-get-210-per-share-in-deal-to-take-company-private.html

Ok_Classic_1338

I am trying to learn about options, can you explain this to me? * EA Electronic Arts 8/21/26 $210, traded yesterday at ten cents * Share price at close was $208.90 I don't understand why this was sold for $10? 34 days for the stock to go up $2 and then you sell it and make $100? And you only risk $10? Please tell me what I'm missing, thanks.

CaringCupcake

That’s a property of long-termism though - which is NOT inherently a property of EA. Yes, some people in EA subscribe to long-termism and abuse the framework to justify wealth hoarding. These people often end up being disproportionately visible people in EA due to said wealth hoarding. But there are plenty of people who believe in EA at least do not attempt to make decisions based on long-termism, because we don’t currently have a good enough ability to model the consequences of actions designed to mitigate negative long-term consequences vs. the compounding benefits of helping humans alive today to justify that. (I do have my own bias towards the second though, based off the generally strong value-proposition of compounding systems.)

IStriveForBalance1

I get what you are saying here, totally! I would just say that effective altruism is a big group of people, with most people trying to do actual good! (And some just using the name) Many people diligently are working on animal welfare needs, AI and insect sentience, global health, and other pressing matters. Check out the work of "80,000 Hours", " GiveWell", or "The Life You can Save". For some really interesting work, check out the research from Rethink Priorities. Really good people, and no one is pro-doom the planet by stealing from people. Anthropic staff may lean EA, but not all EA's lean Anthropic, or do but do not suport any stealing 🙏. All the best :).

spicykimchi_inmybutt

get this man a job at EA

TheRealJohnOptions

I feel like being a trillionaire means you have to hire an EA to run your life in quectoseconds. Seems like a Tales From The Crypt episode (fuck we need that back)

EmpathyFabrication

Although the purchase was made alongside many other stocks, Trump bought shares of Kenvue (KVUE) valued between $1,001 - $15,000 on Sep 23, 2025, the day after the announcement was made linking autism to Tylenol, “President Trump Makes an Announcement on Medical and Scientific Findings for America's Children.” https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/News+Releases/B8B9EA45F5EB86EC85258E2600701B77?opendocument

GarfSnacks

About as much as EA sports yearly titles cannibalize their own, so not at all

gotwaffles

Your thesis seems to be on GTA6 and future versions of it. Why do you think GTA6 will be on future console versions? Why do you think we will have future consoles vs something else entirely? For your last question on a 10yr horizon, what are you comparing it to? TTWO vs EA? Yea, I think I'd prefer TTWO. But TTWO vs AMZN or something? Nah...

M4chsi

Gaming is too risky and to bet on one companies growth is too risky. Gaming as a whole is surely growing, but look at EA, Ubisoft, CD Project. Also I do think mobile and cloud gaming are the future, therefore I would invest into Amazon or Tencent, which seem to be the biggest players.

Kenju22

It worked with EA for over a decade.

Constant_Story8217

EA

GammaReaper_

Lol. After all the sh\*t OP gave me last week on my (100% correct BTW) EA trade on $ADBE, with all his claims about how brilliant an options trader he is, pretty much smarter than anyone else, this is the best he can do??!! WTF kind of drivel is this? Ewww - IV is high and the market is going to move big or vol will be crushed!! So Mr Big Shot, instead of stating the obvious, what don't you bless us with your brilliant trading acumen and tell us your trade that will make us all rich??!!🤡

RocketButters

Gaming is an extremely niche coverage area you would be hard pressed to find an analyst who only covers or primarily covers gaming public equities. After the EA takeout, the only major companies of value in the sector are Take-Two and Roblox. Analysts prioritize covering larger portions of their coverage universe the people on the earnings call primarily cover major tech companies like Apple, Google, Sony, and Microsoft. Taketwo might be of interest particularly now but is getting nowhere the attention reddits thinks. RemindMe! 6 months

RocketButters

It’s a mid-cap gaming company. If there is one stock on Reddit that is mispriced, it’s this one. You have 40 year olds trying to figure out how big GTA 6 will be. Not to mention, since EA is getting bought out, there are virtually no other pure-play gaming companies, it's not a major coverage area.

jimlahey420

You can't triple banbet a double bet! [You can't triple banbet a double bet!](https://youtu.be/rLuqzSLZ2EA?si=cHmH4CnhlkUulgYy)

Miserable_Mine_4189

The EA virtue signalling data stealing company? no Thanks

GammaReaper_

Nope. I trade about \~80 EA per quarter. My winners range from 3% to 276%, avg 57%. Losers -1% to -83%, avg -40%. 54% win rate so expectancy = +12%/trade x 1% x 80 x 4 = 38%/year. I'm all about risk control, steady, low vol returns, high Sharpe, zero beta. But hey, that's just me. If you have a strategy that generates 38%+/year pure alpha would love to hear about it!

Bridledbronco

It’s in the game! EA Sports man

GammaReaper_

Hard to get the direction right on EA. I always play non - directional, based on cheapness/richness of IV.

Wemm92

what is EA in this context?

GammaReaper_

LOL, I guess you've never traded EA before. Very rarely does the overnight action predict what occurs during price discovery the next morning. Check back tomorrow around 10 a.m. after the fat lady has sung.

eskhalaf

EA sports to the game

GammaReaper_

There are dozens if not hundreds. Depends on your interests/style of trading. My current focus is on EA vol crush trades.

robmafia

my bad. i looked up that sku and it seemed to be a laptop that was nothing special. https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Nebula-Touchscreen-Convertible-Notebook/dp/B0DT7MNLTD?th=1 but i see the relevant version on their website (GZ302EA-XS99 ).

GammaReaper_

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 1. Yes, I spend more time doing that than almost anything else. 2. I have a 10+ metrics I use to make my buy/sell decision, and of course go long/short based the net "score." Anecdotally, it appears the setups that have the highest number of metrics lining up in the same direction, often leads to a loser. On my list of things to quantify 3. Other things to fine tune - expected vol crush vs actual for massive movers like $DELL, literature points to post EA alpha opportunities - need to analyze if/how to exploit, same with vol rush leading up to an EA, I'm generating data that no data supplier seems to have available, so will continue gathering and then analyzing once I have a rich enough data set, plus, plus, plus. Lots more to do.

backmost

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9J_V6EA4dIE&si=zFdr_cSpQ1kFTN9x Top tier DD on SPCE

GammaReaper_

In no particular order: IV of nearest 2 expiration dates. From that I calc expected vol crush Historical abs value of past 12 EA moves - both opening gap and 1 day move Std dev of EA moves Establish 68% CI of moves, then adjust for vol crush Determine current expected move, calc from nearest expiry ATM straddle VRP VRP percentile 25 delta risk reversal 25 delta risk reversal percentile HV vs IV - for previous EA, not all days Then depending on cheap/rich score from the above, construct an asymmetrical, non-directional, defined risk option position with the closest to expiration. If it doesn't provide an acceptable RR, pass. If all good, pull trigger going into close On open next day, allow price discovery to occur 930 -945. Exit trade regardless of outcome. Move on to the next one.

GammaReaper_

Appreciate the thoughts. But of course the hard part is knowing if the consensus is right or wrong going into any EA. There's lots of highly paid WS analysts who try to get it right. Check out the graphs at the top of my post. Most of the time IV exceeds RV. If you know the consensus is wrong and you know the direction of the miss, then yes, go long puts/calls outright. I've yet to meet anyone who can consistently do that. My game is to evaluate the cheapness/richness of the vol surface and exploit that, all from a non-directional basis. My goal is to mine alpha, not place beta bets.

Bagholder147

EA sports its in the middle East

Stirbmehr

Mean, algorithms as of now drive what, 70%-80% of all the market? Maybe more? EA and Algo exist for god knows how long. Unless tech breaktrough happens agents wouldn't be much better. More flexible perhaps, but as outlier and lot of investment, not as average. And agents need way, waaay more refinement compared to algo. Maybe it skepticism ralking, but given current state of agents and how industry quietly moved goalpost from "Agi next year" to "Agents eventually will arrive for complex tasks soon™ " - couple years sounds more like 5-8, in case it even happens.

GamermanRPGKing

And then they roll out Rockstar... Gearbox isn't bad, Firaxis is pretty good. They're pushing super hard for the live service stuff, and aside from EA with Madden and Fifa, they might be one of the better ones on that front because of the juggernauts.

GammaReaper_

True, unless you are playing from the long side. Then max loss is at the closest strike at expiration. But can make bank if the price crosses from OTM to ITM. And OP was talking about EA trades so by definition the play is for single stocks, not the SPX etc.

GammaReaper_

Both expirys will experience vol crush although the closest to expiration crush will be more dramatic. Simple example - trading weeklies 1DTE and 7DTE. The 1 DTE has priced in just the overnight vol crush while the 7 DTE has 5 full trading days plus the ON vol crush. So all things being equal, both the short and long expiry will experience the crush, but the magnitude of longer dated option won't be as significant because the crush is only for 1 of the 6 days The risk in the trade is gamma. If you are short front and long back month, for a big move you'll lose a lot more from delta + gamma than you'll make from vega. EA is my go to trade as I find lots of alpha in these set ups for a variety of reasons. If you aren't calculating expected vol crush, you need to start doing so at a minimum to better understand the EV of a given trade. If you don't know how to do the calc, lmk and I'll send you a simple excel calculator that does so.

saabzternater

I was fortunate enough to hold TTWO many years ago before GTA5, went from $15 and sold at $32 when EA made a bid to buy them. Here I am many years later with a $175 average buy in lol

gamersEmpire

So is this ebola shit going pandemic? Calls on EA and NFLX?

CrayonsForBilly

Yea, platform update means they're growing enough to keep innovating their offering. Their product is campus based so all these big ass enterprises they've got as customers (Adobe, EA, Warner Bros) are likely going to expand their exposure to CXApp over time. Growing subscription revenue got me bullish af.

shortvol_trader

The right way to handle a losing trade. 1% allocation, defined risk, accepted the loss and moved on — that's the process working exactly as intended. The interesting data point here is that NVDA surprised to the upside again but the vol crush was muted because the market already expected the beat. That's the edge degrading in real time — when everyone knows NVDA beats earnings, the implied move gets priced higher and the crush gets smaller. Worth tracking whether NVDA earnings vol crush trades are still statistically positive after this quarter. The edge in these trades depends on IV overpricing the realized move, and that gap narrows when the market gets better at pricing the expected beat. What's your historical win rate on NVDA EA vol crush specifically?

GammaReaper_

IV surface was cheap which created an attractive reward to risk profile. Going in I knew it was a low probability trade (<40%) but with a high enough, positive EV to put it on. Had a similar setup in Jan with MSFT EA that paid off big.

CrayonsForBilly

If no one wants it, it won't reach a dollar xD Whether it reaches a dollar organically or goes through a reverse split, if it's August report shows a jump in revenue (which it seems likely that it will) this stock is going be seen as a solid business. 10x the current $15m market cap doesn't seem unlikely if it can get revenue to show growth from here. The business has a product that's working, on a subscription model for recurring revenue, it's got some big enterprise names like EA, Adobe, Warner Bros as part of it's customer base... And it's wildly cheap. It just has to show that increased revenue in it's next report and it's going to be viewed a lot differently than it is now. You can wait for that to happen if you're unsure but the price of entry would be a lot higher than now because by then it's a done deal. Not financial advice, but just how I'm seeing it.

FUWS

Ubisoft, Bethesda and EA can get rekt just on principle.

Charlie_Yu

I don’t know, I haven’t played EA games for like 20 years and never GTA6. For me it’s just another way to leak my email address and/or password for something that I don’t need

FarVillage188

not sarcasm at all. I'm very aware that Ubisoft is strongly hated everywhere, but I never understood it and probably never will. I'm a huge gamer with 200+ titles on Steam, 80% of which I played through, and Ubisoft games are some of the best games out there: AC, Far Cry, Division, WatchDogs, Star Wars Outlaws are all incredible. if you're into single player action games, they are one of the best publishers. how are they're "cancerous when it comes to micro-transactions". I've played vast majority of their games and never felt the need to buy anything in game. it's single player games and you have anything you need to beat the games without any need to buy any points. as opposed to EA, for example, with FIFA being pay-to-play with their main mode Ultimate Team, where people spend thousands of dollars each year to buy packs and keep their team competitive. the coin selling and trading in Fifa is its own huge business. and what's the problem with using their launcher? it takes only a couple of minutes to install and create an account, and it's free. all big publishers do that: EA, Rockstar Games, etc. are you not gonna play GTA6 cause you don't wanna install Rockstar launcher?

FarVillage188

what's the problem with using their launcher? it takes only a couple of minutes to install and create an account, and it's free. all big publishers do that: EA, Rockstar Games, etc. are you not gonna play GTA6 cause you don't wanna install Rockstar launcher?

recumbent_mike

EA sports seemed to be doing ok for a while

SmoothOperator423

Dead Space, EA calls

GammaReaper_

Experience says that it ain't over till the fat lady sings. Very rarely does the overnight/pre-market price action = 10:00 am post-EA price

Snoo-90587

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AyumiHikaru

>The deal pays shareholders **$210 per share in cash**, EA is $200 now

hotCupADank

EA SPORTS, its in the name

sudharsansai

Two EA-18Gs crashed during an air show? Ouch, that must put a hole in the pocket of Uncle Sam. Glad the crew is safe tho

Guidance_Pretty

I will short $EA, i don’t think the takeover is happening

Educational-Pride104

Find a good tax person (CPA, EA, attorney) or financial advisor. Good advice is worth paying for

OTMallthetime

Tell me you're not a gamer without telling me. The gaming community hates them, and rightly so. Naughty dog, ubisoft, blizzard, are headed in EA territory.

TheBooneyBunes

Here I’ll make you feel better I paper handed EA calls pre BF6 launch, ie, a month before Saudi bought them and they mooned. It would’ve expired in January or February I also panik sold Apple calls after their Feb earnings because it crashed after spiking after hours when it recovered in a week

pa3xsz

Yes, they don't buy full priced games (what a shit term though), because Ubisoft, EA and the other big triple A companies made so much slop, that the indie industry got attention from the consumers, look at schedule 1 for example.

octipice

That would be because EA has been absorbing companies like Ubisoft for quite some time (Dice, Bioware, Respawn, etc.) and Ubisoft mostly uses their own IP and makes games "in house". They're both horseshit anti-consumer companies, but the scope and scale are massively different.

princeoinkins

>Plus EA have the sports money printer This is the big one. Madden, FIFA/FC, CFB, F1, and UFC, are all HUGE, and the people I know that play them, (mostly console gamers), play EXCLUSIVELY those games I think those of us who would consider ourselves "gamers" often don't realize this, but I'm willing to bet that 25% if not more, of Xbox and PlayStation owners, play only EA Sports titles

SwordOfJiang

EA has their sports games and deals with Microsoft for gamepass

TheBooneyBunes

EA was in the toilet for a long time

HorizonShadow

Like it or not, Ubisoft is almost entirely their own IPs. EA is almost entirely professional sport IPs. They're barely even in the same market

StaysAwakeAllWeek

EA is famous for toxic microtransactions but the games they poison with them are at the very least good enough to bother complaining about. Ubisoft are not making games like Star Wars Battlefront, Apex, Battlefield, etc Plus they own the EA sports money printer

Choice_Potato_6279

Most games are shit now, EA was claimed to be the worst company in America once.

Zeep-Xanflorps-Peace

I think a lot of it’s because of EA’s sports catalog. It’s hard to compete when they have almost guaranteed annual sales flowing in.

Choice_Potato_6279

I was surprised looking at their marketcap, because of the memes here I thought they were bigger. Another surprise was Ubisoft for me, had no idea what a huge gap was between them and EA, even before the crash.

GammaReaper_

Oops my bad - I was short it. My hold period is after the open until 945 -10 am after the EA. It opened \~465 and traded in a tight range. Crush set in and b/a spreads tightened so it was time to exit. Not a big profit - sold for $1.00, closed for$0.78 The decision to go long/short is based on a multitude of factors including 1 reach cheapness after factoring in vol crush 2 historical post-earnings moves based on previous close to the open, not close to close, looking back, on average, 12 quarters 3 a few other relative implied vol versus historical vol moves. Once I have determined whether to go long or short, only then do I take a look at the vol surface and construct the trade. I'm almost always doing defined risk trades. The first factor I consider is move forecast of at-the-money straddles adjusted for historical standard deviation less vol crush. I then select widths of the wings to create an asymmetrical payoff diagram. I'm also cognizant of how much capital I want to risk. I compare the width of the wings versus the number of contracts. Sometimes a wider width with lower contracts is a better risk reward. Other times, tighter wings with more contracts is superior.

GammaReaper_

Make game is to evaluate the EA event so I enter just before the close pre- event then close 9:45am-10am post event. I'm only determining the cheapness/richness of IV associated with the event, not PEAD or any other EA - related phenomenon. I'm working an my theory about trading PEAD but I'm not there yet.

GammaReaper_

I have a demonstrable edge in trading IV around earnings announcements. It involves significant analytical analysis well beyond simple approaches like TA or IV to include historical EA performance and calculation of Vol Crush metrics. Without a similar approach that can repeatable generate alpha, options trading is breakeven at best.

Holycroc_RVA

I've been in since TTWO acquired Zynga. Only ended up with 85 shares but that was at, I think, $123 or something like that. I thought bout selling in the $180's figured I only had 85 shares, so why hold, then earnings or GTA news shot it up $40 or such so i was like, well maybe I'll hold especially with the release (at the time being in the near future). It got up to $256, I was thinking I'd hold for the release and maybe hope for $300, then it cratered to 180/190's. Crawling back up to $225 now. I'm no stock person, only got a few stocks. Had Glu mobile, EA took them in an all cash deal.

GammaReaper_

Yes correct. I've done hundreds of EA trades. The RR going into a trade is almost always better for long iron condors and ALWAYS superior for short IC vs short straddle/strangles. I also track actual p/l for my IC trades vs the outcome if I'd have done a straddle/strangle instead. Again the outcome favors the IC.

GammaReaper_

I trade 50-80 EA each quarter. 80% of the time the direction/magnitude of overnight move is not indicative of the move experienced during price discovery after the open. The news/price action before then is just noise. Also, you seem not to be considering IV in your decision making process. You should have your agent come up with a strategy that is repeatable and has an edge. Your approach has neither.

33445delray

Questions What does 90% max loss mean when you take on unlimited risk? If you sold a put and call for 20 and bought them back for 38,do you count that as a 90% loss because 18 is 90% of 20? How do you get the data for what the bid and ask for puts and calls and stock price were at 3:45 for earnings announcement days in the past? Same question for morning after for the first 15 minutes of trading? How many EA events in the past are your sample size? 8? 12? 16? More? A typical data point will be something like put + call = 8% of stock price and unwind =X times the premium collect where X is a number somewhere between .5 and 4 or possibly more. You would like to see the average value of X to be .8. Is there a single value of X in your data set that would make you rule out that stock as too risky? Do you simply take an average of all your X points to see if it is .8 or less?

GammaReaper_

I trade lots of EA Crush. IC are nearly always superior to straddles/strangles not only because of the defined risk nature of them but the return profile is almost always superior if you factor in the vol surface when constructing the trade.

GammaReaper_

I see lots of names with highly illiquid options - defined as wide b/a spreads - in your list, APP, DIS, COP, etc. Are your results real or simulated? And if you are really trying to exit in the first 15 min after the open, b/a spreads are worse, even for liquid names. My go to trade is EA Crush, but trade both longs and shorts. My initial screen is options liquidity and have looked at hundreds of names and only \~50 or so have enough liquidity to not get r@ped during execution. Call me skeptical if your returns are real vs simulated...

GammaReaper_

I use TOS and almost ALWAYS get filled at mid or even better, e.g. I was SL a 4DTE IC on PLTR this am. Bid/Ask .$0.98/$1.16, mid = $1.07. SL limit $1.11 and filled at that level. Post execution, mid was still $1.07. Just one example but rarely do I not get a fill at mid or better. Of course, I'm only trading highly liquid names ("everyday" trades are SPX, EA trades are MEGA caps with hi options volume.) Interesting observation. When I entered the trade yesterday afternoon, market was $1.20 @ $1.45, mid = $1.33. My PL $1.33 limit didn't get filled even when the mid showed $1.30. I lowered my bid to $1.30 - no fill. Mid went back to $1.33 so I increased my bid to $1.33 and was filled immediately. This happens quite frequently. TOS charges a commission. Correct me if I'm wrong, but TT has "free"trading. Obviously they can't make money if they charge no commissions, so you pay for execution in other ways, like poor fills.

GammaReaper_

The EA was last night AC so the trade is already baked. But to answer your question, no I don't hold to expiration. The trade is to play the cheapness/richness of the options ex vol crush going into EA. Once price discovery settles in (9:45-10am) I get out regardless if it's a winner or loser. PEAD is a whole different trade so I exit and move on to the next one.

Ghost_Reborn416

Because F EA, that's why

bzl33

Anthropic is a doomer cult, they will fail like the rest of the EA weirdo companies have failed.

sak3rt3ti

Wait that dude was a EA? I thought he was an analist.

Ragebait_Destroyer

Why did someone downvotes this? Maybe they aren't gamers. Pretty soon an LLM will do this for EA.

Todayjunyer

If I for some reason had EA stock and it jumped 70% I’d sell before brushing my teeth

GammaReaper_

If you aren't doing so, you need calculate the expected Vol Crush. It's a straight forward calculation that uses IV for strangles from the 2 closest expiration dates to the EA. For example, AAPL announced AC yesterday. Going into the close, run the 1dte IV and the 8dte IV though the calculator. The logic is simple - the 1dte option IV is based on the pre EA IV while the 8dte option IV has 1 date of pre EA and 7 days ex-EA. In this case, IV was 84% pre EA with expected Crush of 57 vol points = 26% post EA. AAPL beat and had a decent pop at the open. By 10 am IV had fallen to 55%. By today's close, AAPL was up only \~3% and IV closed at \~26%, almost exactly the level determined by the calculator. If earnings are in line, the calculation provides a very accurate assessment of Crush. Crush doesn't occur instantaneously at the open - maybe 50% of the Crush has been priced in by 10am. The rest decays away throughout the rest of the day - like for AAPL today. These rules change if there is a huge surprise causing the stock to move far beyond the expected move (determined by ATM strangles pre earnings). Armed with expected vs actual Crush will allow you to make better informed decisions about the structure and timing of any trades you might do.

Radiant-Shine-8575

As someone with a lot of EA Stock much under 12 months old the short term gains are gonna suck on forced liquidation.

TryExciting4508

I wish I worked at EA. No need to work. Just roll forward the previous years game and change the date

OsamaBagHolding

"Like 4chan found a bloomberg terminal..."  EA: its in the game Racism is wack but restricted speech is bad in its own way too. No winning

GammaReaper_

My game is to trade the expected EA move factoring in Vol Crush. Regardless if I'm long or short vol, my exit is always 9:45- 10 am. Enough time for price discovery to occur and b/a spreads tighten. A partial crush has occurred - if I'm short I tend to wait until closer to 10. If I'm long, I'm a little more aggressive in exiting before full Crush has been realized. I don't trade PEAD. If I did, that decision making process would be completely independent of my Crush trade

nobertan

Think they’re starting their Xbox story arc after their leadership change to an EA exec. The family friendly console niche will bite the dust, and it won’t compete on fidelity/performance. They’ll run up on the short l/mid term as they squeeze loyal customers, until they’ve had enough and dump the brand.