Last Tuesday June 13, 2017, I wrote the following on my blog, accessible to subscribers:

“10:06 am PST. I am liking WFM today. I think it could go to $38 by July. I am looking to buy July calls if it can close above 35.60. Watching.”

The reason I wrote this was because I started seeing heavy volume in the dark pool on Whole Foods Market (WFM), which I thought was unusual. Today the announcement came out that Amazon will buy WFM. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-whole-foods-m-a-jana-idUSKBN1972QU.

Someone knew something! And traded on the information before the announcement. You see all sorts of insider trading in the dark pool. I wish I had taken pictures of those dark pool prints. Yes, I started to see them on Tuesday, and kept seeing them through the week. Very interesting. If someone has a subscription to Livevol Pro: http://www.livevol.com, you can go back and check to see the dark pool volume this past week on WFM. It will be very interesting to see at what prices the prints happened as I do not have a record of it, but I do remember seeing them prior to the announcement. Now I know why.

I got too distracted with other trades, that I left this one on the table….but, wow. That is why there was so much volume this week prior to the announcement.