Reading the market regime before prices move
Reading the market regime before prices move
You see heavy volume on a stock's options and can't tell whether it is routine daily trading or new positions being built.
These are the five stocks whose contracts met the conditions for unusual options activity (UOA) , ranked by total premium (paid) paid.
| Ticker | Unusual contracts | Total premium | Call share | Largest contract | Volume vs open interest | Nearest expiry | Contract details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOOGL | 2 | $9.53M | 100% | $8.55M | 46.6× | 9 days | With the free trial |
| AAPL | 3 | $3.69M | 14% | $2.23M | 104.9× | 7 days | With the free trial |
| META | 3 | $3M | 0% | $1.5M | 30.4× | 5 days | With the free trial |
| AMZN | 1 | $2.05M | 100% | $2.05M | 192.0× | 9 days | With the free trial |
| ORCL | 2 | $1.51M | 23% | $1.17M | 2.7× | 16 days | With the free trial |
“Volume vs open interest”: the highest ratio among the stock's contracts of today's volume to open interest before the session. Three times means today's trading was three times what was already open.
Source: the options chain and its trades during the session · Finviro engine · last updated .
A contract makes the list when today's volume far exceeds its open interest, with a large premium paid, enough time to expiry, and large trades rather than many small ones.
Then we add up each stock's contracts and rank the stocks by total premium. Indices and funds are left out because their contracts are much larger than a single stock's. Read more about unusual options activity in the glossary.
This is a reading of what happened in the market, not a recommendation to buy or sell.
In the contract flow you get every contract with its strike and expiry, the change in its open interest, the time of its peak trading, and the gamma levels for the same stock.
