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Just a hypothetical here, no need to get hyped because I'm confident this won't  happen.

Imagine some guy with a billion dollars wants to buy in.  He could buy shares with an algo or buywall, possibly pushing the price up against him while doing so...

or he could sell ITM puts.  I've  heard a lot about hedgefunds doing some fucky shit with ITM puts, and Im sure there's a pretty solid market for them.  

So imagine mr. guy sells all these puts, and plans to hold the position until exercise.  The hedge funds must be thinking all the way til the end that those puts will be bought back and closed, maybe rolled.  But when mr. guy decides to get assigned, what happens?  Suddenly shorts must pull a billion dollars of shares out of their ass in like 2 hours while the markets are closed?

Or choose to not assign...