Ethan pulled up his laptop and created a Robinhood account using the fake ID he'd purchased in his previous life for bar access ,still valid, still usable. The account verification took fifteen minutes. He transferred four hundred dollars from his poker winnings, keeping one hundred in reserve for living expenses.
Then he bought AMD call options contracts betting the stock would rise above $4 by December. Cheap as dirt right now at forty cents per contract, each one controlling one hundred shares.
Four hundred dollars bought him ten contracts controlling one thousand shares of AMD stock.
If AMD hit his target price of $15 within eighteen months, those contracts would be worth around $110,000.
But Ethan wasn't greedy enough to wait eighteen months. He'd sell at $5, taking a smaller but
