US Stock Options | NVIDIA, AMD trading surges! Alibaba, NIO calls remain hot
Call options are hot? Put options are equally popular! Last Friday, there were 185,000 transactions of Tesla puts with a strike price of $237.5, and over 50,000 transactions of Apple puts with a strike price of $182.5. The trading volume of Alibaba options increased to 425,000 contracts, with a call option ratio of 61.4%. NIO's trading volume rose to 200,000 contracts, with a call option ratio of 65%.
Last Friday, the three major U.S. stock indexes barely closed higher, with chip stocks outperforming the market.
Overview of U.S. Stock Options Trading
The top ten U.S. stock options trading on that day were: Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Amazon, Marathon Digital, Microsoft, Medical Properties Trust, Alibaba, and Meta.
Among them:
Tesla slightly declined, with options trading slightly rebounding to 2.08 million contracts, with 52.7% of the options being call options. Put options with a strike price of $237.5 and expiring on that day traded 185,000 contracts, while put options with a strike price of $240 traded nearly 70,000 contracts.
Nvidia rose more than 2%, with options trading surging to 1.69 million contracts, with call options accounting for 53% of the total. Call options with a strike price of $490 traded over 130,000 contracts.
Apple slightly declined, with options trading slightly falling to 1.1 million contracts, with call options accounting for 53.2% of the total. Put options with a strike price of $182.5 traded over 50,000 contracts.
AMD rose nearly 2%, with options trading increasing to 700,000 contracts, with call options accounting for 60.7% of the total. Call options with a strike price of $138 traded nearly 50,000 contracts.
Marathon Digital and Microsoft both had options trading exceeding 450,000 contracts.
Medical Properties Trust plummeted 29%, with options trading surging to nearly 430,000 contracts, with put options accounting for nearly 80% of the total.
Alibaba fell more than 2%, with options trading rising to 425,000 contracts, with call options accounting for 61.4% of the total.
NIO fell more than 2%, with options trading rising to 200,000 contracts, with call options accounting for 65% of the total.
