This is the route I would have taken, but not with OTM puts. It’s far easier to let the stock tank, then buy up calls knowing that the reason is bullshit, and wait for the price to recover and sell.
You will blend in perfectly because you have an alibi for why you are buying so many TSLA calls.
And when you buy an OTM put, it’s hard to predict what a good price would be exactly. How far do you think the stock would drop? With a call you could be fairly more confident it will return to a previous level.
That said, this kind of attack requires you to have a good amount of capital on hand, so you need to be a fairly independently wealthy hacker.
