SPY ranked in the top 10 underlyings by options premium on our tape in 57 of the last 60 sessions (Jul 23, 2026 – Oct 15, 2026), ranking #1 in 17 of them. In the latest archived session (Thu, Oct 15, 2026) SPY ranked #2 with $699.3M in premium across 23,578 prints. Among its comparable sessions, the heaviest was Sep 16, 2026 at $120.2M (#1) and the median was $58.7M.
SPY options premium by session
| Session | Rank | Premium | Prints | vs. median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 † | #2 | $699.3M | 23,578 | — |
| Oct 14, 2026 † | #2 | $605.6M | 22,679 | — |
| Oct 13, 2026 † | #2 | $382.7M | 12,896 | — |
| Oct 12, 2026 † | #4 | $239.2M | 8,270 | — |
| Oct 9, 2026 † | #2 | $334.6M | 11,952 | — |
| Oct 8, 2026 † | #2 | $476.1M | 17,537 | — |
| Oct 7, 2026 † | #1 | $398.9M | 14,073 | — |
| Oct 6, 2026 † | #1 | $443.9M | 15,671 | — |
| Oct 5, 2026 † | #1 | $411.0M | 14,703 | — |
| Oct 2, 2026 † | #1 | $533.9M | 19,837 | — |
| Oct 1, 2026 † | #2 | $686.7M | 26,485 | — |
| Sep 30, 2026 † | #2 | $488.7M | 17,887 | — |
| Sep 29, 2026 † | #2 | $440.4M | 17,442 | — |
| Sep 28, 2026 | #1 | $114.9M | 111,322 | 2.0× |
| Sep 25, 2026 | #3 | $39.4M | 77,360 | 0.7× |
| Sep 24, 2026 | #3 | $84.1M | 72,542 | 1.4× |
| Sep 23, 2026 | #1 | $58.2M | 75,982 | 1.0× |
| Sep 22, 2026 | #3 | $42.0M | 68,161 | 0.7× |
| Sep 21, 2026 | #4 | $85.8M | 84,709 | 1.5× |
| Sep 18, 2026 | #5 | $47.1M | 63,603 | 0.8× |
| Sep 17, 2026 | #3 | $59.8M | 97,903 | 1.0× |
| Sep 16, 2026 | #1 | $120.2M | 131,087 | 2.0× |
| Sep 15, 2026 | #3 | $44.5M | 92,041 | 0.8× |
| Sep 14, 2026 | #1 | $57.2M | 115,810 | 1.0× |
| Sep 11, 2026 | #1 | $37.3M | 44,926 | 0.6× |
| Sep 10, 2026 † | #2 | $125.9M | 5,608 | — |
| Sep 9, 2026 | #1 | $58.5M | 98,330 | 1.0× |
| Sep 8, 2026 | #1 | $73.5M | 113,420 | 1.3× |
| Sep 4, 2026 | #5 | $38.9M | 85,168 | 0.7× |
| Sep 3, 2026 | #2 | $72.7M | 101,186 | 1.2× |
| Sep 2, 2026 | #1 | $64.4M | 110,175 | 1.1× |
| Sep 1, 2026 | #1 | $68.4M | 138,481 | 1.2× |
| Aug 31, 2026 | #1 | $71.1M | 118,421 | 1.2× |
| Aug 28, 2026 | #2 | $44.2M | 78,858 | 0.8× |
| Aug 27, 2026 | #4 | $45.3M | 60,420 | 0.8× |
| Aug 26, 2026 | #3 | $58.8M | 82,703 | 1.0× |
| Aug 25, 2026 | #2 | $55.7M | 107,960 | 1.0× |
| Aug 24, 2026 † | #4 | $104.8M | 4,536 | — |
| Aug 21, 2026 † | #7 | $87.9M | 869 | — |
| Aug 20, 2026 † | #4 | $74.4M | 3,705 | — |
| Aug 19, 2026 † | #5 | $60.0M | 3,045 | — |
| Aug 18, 2026 | #6 | $39.6M | 95,258 | 0.7× |
| Aug 17, 2026 † | #4 | $54.9M | 2,516 | — |
| Aug 14, 2026 † | #2 | $97.3M | 1,110 | — |
| Aug 13, 2026 † | #2 | $96.1M | 4,771 | — |
| Aug 12, 2026 * | #1 | $78.2M | 185,223 | — |
| Aug 11, 2026 † | #4 | $75.2M | 3,694 | — |
| Aug 10, 2026 | #2 | $83.6M | 212,499 | 1.4× |
| Aug 7, 2026 † | #3 | $82.0M | 2,485 | — |
| Aug 6, 2026 | #3 | $59.8M | 105,845 | 1.0× |
| Aug 5, 2026 * | #2 | $92.3M | 179,844 | — |
| Aug 4, 2026 * | #1 | $239.1M | 286,574 | — |
| Aug 3, 2026 * | #1 | $105.0M | 192,429 | — |
| Jul 28, 2026 * | #2 | $88.6M | 203,766 | — |
| Jul 27, 2026 * | #2 | $94.8M | 195,847 | — |
| Jul 24, 2026 * | #2 | $91.0M | 176,915 | — |
| Jul 23, 2026 * | #4 | $106.1M | 176,230 | — |
* Our in-memory tape hit its 500,000-print cap that session, so its figures may undercount.
† That session's summary was rebuilt from our durable archive, which keeps only prints of $10K or more: the print count covers those prints only and premium is not comparable with unmarked sessions. Rank within the session is unaffected.
Marked sessions are left out of the median and have no vs. median figure.
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 |
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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