Every session our options tape ranks the underlyings that drew the most options premium. This is that ranking, kept session by session: which tickers made the top 10, how much premium they drew and across how many prints. Each ticker below has its own page with its full session history.
Top 10 by premium — Thu, Oct 15, 2026
| Rank | Ticker | Premium | Prints |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | QQQ | $1.18B | 28,940 |
| #2 | SPY | $699.3M | 23,578 |
| #3 | MU | $591.0M | 16,277 |
| #4 | SMH | $382.2M | 3,403 |
| #5 | NVDA | $379.4M | 9,191 |
| #6 | AMD | $321.0M | 8,143 |
| #7 | TSLA | $216.4M | 8,042 |
| #8 | AVGO | $157.9M | 2,406 |
| #9 | META | $134.2M | 3,729 |
| #10 | INTC | $120.6M | 3,241 |
Tickers most often in the top 10
| Ticker | Sessions ranked | Median premium | Latest rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| QQQ | 60 of 60 | $48.4M | #1 |
| TSLA | 60 of 60 | $32.3M | #7 |
| NVDA | 57 of 60 | $40.2M | #5 |
| SPY | 57 of 60 | $58.7M | #2 |
| META | 54 of 60 | $28.6M | #9 |
| AAPL | 47 of 60 | $19.3M | — |
| MU | 38 of 60 | $37.3M | #3 |
| AMZN | 31 of 60 | $20.7M | — |
| IWM | 26 of 60 | $17.0M | — |
| MSFT | 25 of 60 | $16.3M | — |
| AMD | 24 of 60 | $27.2M | #6 |
| TLT | 19 of 60 | $24.2M | — |
| MSTR | 14 of 60 | $22.3M | — |
| PLTR | 14 of 60 | $15.1M | — |
| INTC | 11 of 60 | $21.8M | #10 |
| AVGO | 7 of 60 | $18.0M | #8 |
| NFLX | 7 of 60 | $21.5M | — |
| XLE | 7 of 60 | $7.2M | — |
| GLD | 6 of 60 | $10.2M | — |
| COIN | 5 of 60 | $21.3M | — |
| GOOG | 5 of 60 | $168.8M | — |
A ticker gets its own page once it has ranked in at least 5 of the last 60 sessions. Futures option roots are shown in the session tables but have no page.
Recent sessions
| Session | Top 5 by premium |
|---|---|
| Thu, Oct 15, 2026 | QQQ, SPY, MU, SMH, NVDA |
| Wed, Oct 14, 2026 | QQQ, SPY, MU, NVDA, IWM |
| Tue, Oct 13, 2026 | MU, SPY, QQQ, META, NVDA |
| Mon, Oct 12, 2026 | MU, QQQ, META, SPY, NVDA |
| Fri, Oct 9, 2026 | QQQ, SPY, TSLA, MU, NVDA |
| Thu, Oct 8, 2026 | QQQ, SPY, MU, MSTR, NVDA |
| Wed, Oct 7, 2026 | SPY, MU, QQQ, TSLA, META |
| Tue, Oct 6, 2026 | SPY, QQQ, NVDA, MU, AMD |
| Mon, Oct 5, 2026 | SPY, NVDA, QQQ, TSLA, MU |
| Fri, Oct 2, 2026 | SPY, MU, NVDA, QQQ, TSLA |
What these numbers are
Premium is the summed notional (premium paid) of the option prints our tape recorded for the underlying during the session. Rank is its place among every underlying on the tape that day by that premium; the end-of-day summary publishes the top 10, so a session where the ticker placed 11th or lower has no row here. Prints is how many option trades made up that premium, and vs. median compares the session with the ticker's median premium across its comparable ranked sessions on this page (marked sessions are counted on a different basis and left out).
Heavy premium is activity, not direction: a large print can open or close a position, and either side of it could be the buyer. The figures come from our end-of-day session summary, published after the close, so this page is delayed by at least one session and is never live. The same session numbers are public in our API at /api/public/briefing?date=YYYY-MM-DD.
These are end-of-day totals. The prints behind them — every trade as it happens, with strike, expiry and size — are on the live Flow terminal for members and trial accounts.
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