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Options Flow Recap — Wednesday, Oct 21, 2026

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Bullish
Session bias
1.42
Call/Put ratio
$2.88B
Total premium
15
Signals published

The session read

The 2026-10-21 session recorded 93,284 prints with total premium of $2.88 billion. Call premium reached $1.65 billion against $1.23 billion in puts, yielding a 1.42 ratio. QQQ led symbols by premium at $560 million, followed by SPY at $351 million. META, TSLA, and MU also drew significant volume. The largest single print was a $17.97 million SPY put. The session window ran from 08:30 to 15:00 CT.

Largest single print of the session: a $18.0M PUT in $SPY.

Where the premium went

TickerPremiumPrints
$QQQ$560.3M17,522
$SPY$350.6M12,819
$META$282.3M6,749
$TSLA$278.9M9,560
$MU$250.2M8,610
$NVDA$210.4M8,699
$AMD$130.2M4,830
$AAPL$84.2M2,343
$AMZN$77.7M2,742
$MSFT$64.5M1,175

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Companies mentioned

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