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Options Flow Recap — Tuesday, Oct 20, 2026

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Bullish
Session bias
1.23
Call/Put ratio
$2.71B
Total premium
11
Signals published

The session read

The 2026-10-20 session recorded $2.71 billion in total premium across 90,825 prints from 08:30–15:00 CT. Call premium reached $1.44 billion against $1.27 billion in puts, establishing a 1.23 ratio. QQQ led activity with $555 million in premium and 18,077 prints, followed by SPY’s $441 million and 14,963 prints. MU and TSLA contributed $278 million and $224 million respectively. A single $18.15 million AMZN call print stood as the session’s largest notional transaction.

Largest single print of the session: a $18.1M CALL in $AMZN.

Where the premium went

TickerPremiumPrints
$QQQ$554.9M18,077
$SPY$440.7M14,963
$MU$277.5M9,834
$TSLA$224.1M8,744
$NVDA$181.7M7,890
$META$135.8M3,706
$AMD$126.7M4,271
$AMZN$98.2M2,363
$IWM$90.3M2,008
$AAPL$46.9M1,785

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Companies mentioned

$AAPL · $AMD · $AMZN · $IWM · $META · $MU · $NVDA · $QQQ · $SPY · $TSLA