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klassen
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Pot is hot: Tilray (TLRY) borrows edition

September 26th, 2018, 5:50 pm

I haven’t seen any discussion of cannabis stocks or ETFs here, even though we all know that weed is the new crypto now…

Well, for a few more details, take a look here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pot-hot- ... y-klassen/

TLRY options might well have set a new record: the short-term borrow cost was around 500% for a couple of days last week.

If anyone knows what the short-term implied borrow was for Volkswagen during the Porsche takeover squeeze please put it in the comments (outside of the peak of the squeeze when it was infinity, of course -- what was the implied short-end borrow cost before and after the peak when options were actually trading with bid and asks...).  Thanks.
 
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MartinGale7
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Re: Pot is hot: Tilray (TLRY) borrows edition

October 1st, 2018, 8:44 am

A great idea for a thread. Two thoughts - (1) Will cannabis be as expensive/sought after if it is legalised?, (2) Is it really the wonder drug that people are hoping for?