US Stock Options | Amazon and Citigroup trading nearly doubled! The hottest contract overnight is not Tesla?
AT&T options trading surged to 510,000 contracts, with 94% of them being call options. Among them, the most active contract overnight was the call option with a strike price of $19 and an expiration date of March 15, with a trading volume of 320,000 contracts. Additionally, call options with a strike price of $185 for Tesla and $190 for Tesla, both expiring on February 2, traded over 190,000 contracts and 170,000 contracts respectively.
Overnight, following the Federal Reserve's New Year's resolution, technology stocks rebounded collectively, and Chinese concept stocks rose.
Overview of US Stock Options Trading
The top ten US stock options trading on that day: Tesla, Amazon, Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Citigroup, Microsoft, AT&T, Bank of America, Meta.
Among them:
Tesla rose nearly 1%, with options trading falling to 1.92 million contracts, and call options accounting for 53.5%. Put options with a strike price of $185 and call options with a strike price of $190, both expiring on February 2nd, traded over 190,000 contracts and 170,000 contracts respectively. Call options with a strike price of $187.5 also traded over 120,000 contracts.
Amazon rose over 2%, with options trading nearly doubling to 1.11 million contracts, and call options accounting for 63.5%. Call options with a strike price of $165 traded over 50,000 contracts.
Nvidia rose over 2%, with options trading rebounding to 1.02 million contracts, and call options accounting for 58%. Call options with a strike price of $630 traded over 50,000 contracts.
Apple rose over 1%, with options trading rising to 950,000 contracts, and call options accounting for 51%. Call options with a strike price of $190 traded 50,000 contracts.
AMD rose nearly 2%, with options trading falling to 820,000 contracts, and call options accounting for 59%. Call options with a strike price of $170 traded 100,000 contracts.
Citigroup slightly declined, with options trading doubling to 660,000 contracts, and call options accounting for 84%. Call options with strike prices of $54 and $52.5 both traded over 60,000 contracts.
Microsoft rose over 1%, with options trading falling to 560,000 contracts, and call options accounting for 64%.
AT&T rose 2%, with options trading skyrocketing to 510,000 contracts, and call options accounting for 94%. Call options expiring on March 15th with a strike price of $19 traded 320,000 contracts, becoming the hottest contract overnight!
Bank of America fell over 1%, with options trading rising to 500,000 contracts, and put options accounting for 58%.
Meta rose over 1%, with options trading rising to nearly 460,000 contracts, and call options accounting for 53%.
