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By Lawrence G. McMillan

AMC Entertainment Holdings shares are once again exploding, having been caught in a short squeeze.

The stock’s realized and implied volatilities are soaring. AMC at one point today more than doubled. There are two options strategies, below, to try to capitalize off this uncommon move. (Note that the data in this article are as of the close of trading June 1.)

The first chart of AMC, below, tracks two years, showing the stock had been in a general decline through most of 2019. In fact, AMC had been falling since making all-time highs in the mid-$30s in 2015 and 2016.

The stock then slumped further due to the pandemic. Things began to change, however, when it rallied amid a short squeeze in late January 2021. The stock exploded from $2 to $20 in less than a month.

Now another short squeeze is under way, and the stock has risen from $9 to over $60 in the last month...

Read the full Marketwatch article by clicking here.