I would think that it would be put options wouldn't it? Aren't puts the ones where you want the stock to go down?

they have terrible names. I can never remember. A put option I think gives me the right to sell you a stock at a price.

So say, ACME is trading at 110. I can buy the right to sell you ACME at 100. You say ok because it's at 110.

But then ACME crashes to 50.

I buy it at 50 and you are on the hook to buy it from me at 100.

Reddit's r/QuiverQuantitative. follows trades and puts by members of congress. MJ Greene bought stock in Dollar General.

I’m not in the US, what could this mean?

The running joke is that American legislators make "surprisingly" good stock trades for "reasons." Regardless or not of whether these picks actually tend to be good long term investments, it really, really rankles to know that a legislator expects poverty to come, is banking on that, but is otherwise not telling diddly squat to her constituents.

https://www.morningstar.com/funds/2-etfs-that-track-congress...

Dollar stores are the stores that sell the absolute cheapest versions of products. Usually low to very low quality, but when you're tight on money, it's where you go. If we enter a recession or depression, those type of cheap stores are going to get a lot more shoppers as folks try to tighten their belts.

Those stores also predominantly sell imported products. They are going to be affected disproportionately by the tariffs.

It's a store chain that will soon be rebranded 'Ten Dollar General'.

You're thinking of Puts and Put-ins. However it would be funny if they did calls.

Not only that, but I assume they'll take more bites of the apple as they go down the list country by country and negotiate better rates for some kind of kickback and market manipulation opportunity.

Not sure if I understand you correctly. I just watched a Youtube video explaining the formular. The Youtube user checked all 160+ countries. All have been calculated with the formular. So there seems to be no Motivation in this sense. All have received the same broken treatment.

Or short sell one day before the tarriff announcements.