Married Calls Taking Place HereThe problem is the Dark Pools are being used to process this strategy which allows these financial traders to make the sale even if no one is selling at that price - You can see by the constant sell of 500 units taking place - They take a small haircut on those 500 shares as the Darkpool is a Move to the front of the line way of making trades. It was setup a while ago to allow for big lot transactions to take place but the system is now being abused. I have reported this activity as you are not supposed to be using to drive the price on 500 units trades.
On a bright note the asks are ultra thin and someone could easily do the reverse strategy any day now if they felt the time is right - Married Put would be nice to see for a change from these institutional traders