US Stock Options | Nvidia, Netflix trading volume doubles! SMCI, ARM trading volume surges
The hottest contracts last Friday: Tesla puts with a same-day expiration and a strike price of $150, with a trading volume of 140,000 contracts. Nvidia options trading doubled to 3.39 million contracts, with 137,000 contracts of puts with a strike price of $800. SMCI options trading surged to 490,000 contracts, with a fifty-fifty split between call options and put options. ARM options trading surged to 430,000 contracts, with puts accounting for seventy percent
Last Friday, US chip stocks and AI concept stocks collectively plummeted, with tech stocks experiencing a "Black Friday".
Overview of US Stock Options Trading
The top ten US stock options trading before last Friday were: Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, AMD, Amazon, Meta, Netflix, SMCI, ARM, Microsoft.
Among them:
Nvidia plummeted by 10%, with options trading doubling to 3.39 million contracts, and 54% of them were call options. Put options with a strike price of $800 and expiring on the same day traded 137,000 contracts, while put options with a strike price of $820 traded 80,000 contracts.
Tesla dropped by 2%, with options trading falling to 2.21 million contracts, and 54% of them were put options. Put options with a strike price of $150 traded 140,000 contracts, and put options with strike prices of $148 and $149 each traded 110,000 contracts.
Apple fell by over 1%, with options trading rising to millions of contracts, and 60% of them were call options. Call options with a strike price of $170 expiring on April 26 traded 40,000 contracts.
AMD fell by over 5%, with options trading rising to 900,000 contracts, and 57% of them were call options. Put options with a strike price of $150 expiring on April 19 traded over 60,000 contracts.
Amazon fell by over 2%, with options trading surging to 640,000 contracts, and 64% of them were call options. Put options with a strike price of $175 traded 20,000 contracts.
Meta fell by 4%, with options trading rising to 520,000 contracts, and 57% of them were call options.
Netflix plummeted by 9%, with options trading nearly doubling to 505,000 contracts, and 52% of them were call options.
SMCI plummeted by 23%, with options trading skyrocketing to 490,000 contracts, with an equal split between call and put options.
ARM plummeted by 17%, with options trading skyrocketing to 430,000 contracts, and 70% of them were put options.
Microsoft fell by 1%, with options trading rising to 430,000 contracts, and 54% of them were call options.
Trump concept stock DJT surged by 10%, with options trading remaining around 270,000 contracts, and 55% of them were call options.
Lyft contracts saw changes, with 50,000 call options expiring on May 17 with a strike price of $20 trading