<p>I dont think that short number is updated every day. Could be wrong about that, but I don’t think so. </p>
<p>You are right, the number is old. I looked at volume and it is up the last 2 weeks so there could be some shorts covering. </p>
<p>Because it is so costly to short tsla, my guess is the short interest is still quite large. I called Schwab to see what they are charging to short tsla, because if it is less than about 2 percent a month there is free money out there. Getting an answer tomorrow. Since there is rarely free money, my guess is Schwab is charging more than 2 percent a month. The same with other brokerage firms. If there were trading firms that locked in deals to short earlier at better than 2 percent a month, they are sitting pretty.</p>
<p>I can’t participate in the premarket. I bought 6/22 intc 18 calls today (ex-div date). It looks like my qcom 62.5 puts are going to expire worthless. I want to still buy some more aapl. I looked at goog the other day - should have bought but didn’t - there may still be a play on it even though its back to an all time high. I want to buy slv. I sold dxj and ewj the other day unfortunately. I wanted to buy them back today but then the yen weakened but I think it is still not at 100.</p>
<p>here is an odd trade that trade analyzer in cboe came up with. I put in a target date of 1/18/14 and a target price of $600 for aapl. One of the trades it came up with was buy 625 5/18 485 contracts and sell 625 5/18 495 contracts</p>
<p>How about this trade with the same criteria as above: oct 600 - 620 - 640 - 660 iron condor. The cost is .59 and the breakeven price = 451.5. I don’t get it, does this mean I make money if it is less than 600?</p>