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Technology Stocks : Apple Inc.
AAPL 259.35+0.1%Jan 9 9:30 AM EST
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To: Road Walker who wrote (148548)1/18/2013 4:26:56 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw  Read Replies (3) of 213181
 
No, I don't find it suspicious at all. And no, it is not in market makers interest to close as close as possible to a strike price, because it introduces significant risk that can't be properly dealt with until the following Monday. Further, having the price oscillate in a relatively narrow band around an ATM strike introduces significant extra hedging cost/complexity to the market makers ahead of expiry.

I appreciate Max pain is a convenient narrative to hang things on, but at the end of the day, it is a fictional narrative.
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