US Stock Options | Alibaba, PDD call trading is hot! Tesla's trading volume continues to decline to 1.37 million contracts
Alibaba's options trading volume exceeded 200,000 contracts, while PDD's trading volume surged to around 167,000 contracts, with a majority of them being bullish call options! Nearly 100,000 contracts of Tesla calls with a December 1st expiration date and a strike price of $240 were traded. The trading volume of Vodafone calls with an April 19th expiration date and a strike price of $10 skyrocketed to around 75,000 contracts.
Overnight, US stocks fell across the board, with Amazon hitting a new 52-week high against the trend, while iRobot plummeted and triggered multiple circuit breakers.
Overview of US stock options trading
The top ten US stock options trading on the day: Tesla, Nvidia, Amazon, Apple, AMD, Microsoft, Affirm, Coinbase, Meta, Palantir.
Among them:
Tesla rose slightly, with options trading continuing to decline to 1.37 million contracts, with a call option ratio of 55%. Nearly 100,000 call options with a strike price of $240 and over 60,000 call options with strike prices of $235 and $230 were traded, all expiring on December 1st.
Nvidia rose nearly 1%, with options trading falling to 770,000 contracts, with a call option ratio of 59%. 46,000 call options with a strike price of $500 were traded.
Amazon rose nearly 1%, with options trading at around 700,000 contracts, with a call option ratio of 66%. 66,000 call options with a strike price of $150 were traded.
Apple fell slightly, with options trading at 550,000 contracts, with a put option ratio of 51%. Over 50,000 call options with a strike price of $190 were traded.
AMD, Microsoft, Affirm, Coinbase, Meta, Palantir, Shopify, Alibaba, Roku, and Marathon Digital all had trading volumes exceeding 200,000 contracts.
PDD options saw a surge in trading volume, reaching 167,000 contracts, with a call option ratio of 62%.
Call options contracts expiring on April 19th next year with a strike price of $10 for Vodafone saw a sharp increase in trading volume to around 75,000 contracts.
