
Crowd Goes Bullish, but Massive Bearish Trade Raises Contrarian Flags
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The semiconductor sector has seen significant volatility in 2023, influenced by global supply chain issues and technological demand shifts.
When it comes to the fate of the all-important semiconductor sector, traders in the options market are faced with a classic investing dilemma: go with the crowd, or the big-money contrarian? According to options flows, the crowd is leaning the most heavily bullish since April. The catch is that the biggest single options trade in the entire market Monday – a $129 million trade that accounted for over a third of total premium in the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) – was resolutely bearish. [...]
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