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Options Flow Recap — Thursday, Oct 22, 2026

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Bearish
Session bias
0.91
Call/Put ratio
$4.91B
Total premium
11
Signals published

The session read

Total premium reached $4.91 billion across 129,517 prints during the 08:30–15:00 CT window, with a call-to-put ratio of 0.91. QQQ led volume with $1.31 billion in premium, followed by SPY at $570 million and MU at $477 million. NVDA, META, and AMD also drew significant flow, while TSLA and SMH contributed substantial notional activity. The largest single print was a PLTR call valued at $76.75 million, marking the session’s highest individual trade size recorded on the tape.

Largest single print of the session: a $76.8M CALL in $PLTR.

Where the premium went

TickerPremiumPrints
$QQQ$1.31B31,291
$SPY$569.8M18,278
$MU$476.7M12,974
$NVDA$294.4M8,306
$META$285.4M7,997
$AMD$250.9M6,945
$TSLA$240.3M8,729
$SMH$208.2M3,420
$AMZN$129.6M3,248
$INTC$126.6M2,366

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Companies mentioned

$AMD · $AMZN · $INTC · $META · $MU · $NVDA · $PLTR · $QQQ · $SMH · $SPY · $TSLA