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Options Flow Recap — Wednesday, Aug 12, 2026

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Bullish
Session bias
1.14
Call/Put ratio
$305.3M
Total premium
100
Signals generated

The session read

Options flow on August 12, 2026 leaned moderately bullish with 500K prints totaling $305.3M in premium and a 1.14 call-to-put ratio favoring upside. SPY and QQQ dominated the tape at $78.2M and $64.8M respectively, while mega-cap tech—NVDA, TSLA, META—combined for over $111M. The constructive bias faced some headwind from a notable $2.2M put block in IWM, signaling hedging interest in small-caps and suggesting traders weren't fully committed to risk-on positioning.

Largest single print of the session: a $2.2M PUT in $IWM.

Where the premium went

TickerPremiumPrints
$SPY$78.2M185,223
$QQQ$64.8M133,822
$NVDA$41.6M51,902
$TSLA$36.0M55,977
$META$33.8M26,252
$AAPL$17.5M20,605
$MSFT$11.1M2,697
$IWM$6.3M11,661
$XLE$3.9M3,995
$TLT$3.4M3,330

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