Most Active Options Today

Total option contracts traded across every strike and expiry, ranked. The index ETFs sit at the top most days, which is why the second column matters more than the first: it shows today’s volume against each name’s own twenty-day average, so an ordinary busy day in SPY does not outrank a genuinely unusual one somewhere smaller.

October 23, 2026 · 805 symbols met the liquidity bar of 50,000 open contracts · showing 100

#	Symbol	Contracts	vs 20d avg	Call / put	Open int.	Price	Ticker analysis
1	SPY Financial Services	13,276,798	1.03×	45C	17,754,829	$763.96	Analysis
2	QQQ Financial Services	10,660,725	1.20×	50C	12,940,264	$704.47	Analysis
3	NVDA Technology	2,536,819	0.87×	59C	15,085,811	$212.21	Analysis
4	TSLA Consumer Cyclical	1,946,113	0.91×	54C	5,518,391	$374.58	Analysis
5	IWM Financial Services	1,871,426	0.95×	43C	10,562,077	$276.67	Analysis
6	SPCX Financial Services	1,743,017	1.40×	53C	4,710,270	$144.75	Analysis
7	EWZ Financial Services	1,728,221	1.81×	79C	12,718,380	$41.85	Analysis
8	TLT Financial Services	1,239,588	1.06×	65C	13,729,989	$81.74	Analysis
9	VIX Index	1,153,900	1.34×	72C	10,658,267	$19.03	Analysis
10	AAPL Technology	1,137,600	0.85×	51C	4,717,067	$348.22	Analysis
11	META Technology	1,069,380	1.37×	65C	3,172,740	$648.85	Analysis
12	MU Technology	1,060,588	0.96×	60C	3,386,116	$856.49	Analysis
13	INTC Technology	1,000,582	1.11×	59C	6,750,347	$85.49	Analysis
14	CRWV Technology	941,799	1.80×	54C	3,964,625	$55.60	Analysis
15	AMZN Consumer Cyclical	911,007	1.09×	70C	4,667,482	$250.38	Analysis
16	AMD Technology	801,827	1.30×	53C	3,267,571	$507.93	Analysis
17	SOXL Financial Services	695,310	1.97×	49C	1,756,154	$82.11	Analysis
18	MRNA Healthcare	643,265	4.08×	41C	871,644	$202.63	Analysis
19	NFLX Communication Services	637,085	1.65×	53C	5,480,143	$67.05	Analysis
20	IBIT	611,667	1.12×	51C	7,103,505	$46.06	Analysis
21	SPX Index	603,434	1.03×	41C	17,269,143	$7,663.43	Analysis
22	GOOGL Technology	563,824	1.13×	65C	3,346,234	$324.22	Analysis
23	IREN Financial Services	541,420	1.45×	62C	3,594,311	$25.51	Analysis
24	TQQQ Financial Services	515,338	1.35×	51C	1,759,342	$66.42	Analysis
25	SMH Financial Services	509,262	1.66×	28C	1,972,889	$523.35	Analysis
26	HYG Financial Services	497,203	0.84×	6C	9,695,431	$77.10	Analysis
27	ORCL Technology	489,758	1.29×	59C	3,634,227	$125.54	Analysis
28	GLD Financial Services	481,630	1.43×	43C	4,893,339	$369.00	Analysis
29	SLV Financial Services	464,684	1.35×	49C	5,197,811	$49.34	Analysis
30	MSTR Technology	422,175	0.95×	59C	2,541,352	$145.80	Analysis
31	PLTR Technology	417,724	0.96×	51C	3,421,630	$196.19	Analysis
32	AVGO Technology	406,471	1.11×	51C	2,362,735	$323.24	Analysis
33	XSP Index	352,902	1.20×	55C	912,204	$766.34	Analysis
34	HOOD Financial Services	347,877	1.15×	63C	1,862,070	$96.58	Analysis
35	NBIS Communication Services	341,493	1.33×	55C	1,739,974	$159.17	Analysis
36	MSFT Technology	324,945	0.57×	54C	3,435,939	$521.08	Analysis
37	GDX Financial Services	294,932	2.18×	65C	2,416,566	$81.69	Analysis
38	NOK Technology	271,854	2.38×	76C	2,977,534	$7.88	Analysis
39	GME Consumer Cyclical	270,808	0.86×	84C	1,899,285	$25.39	Analysis
40	SMCI Technology	260,415	1.06×	60C	2,449,469	$33.72	Analysis
41	SOFI Financial Services	250,606	0.68×	75C	4,054,882	$14.77	Analysis
42	GOOG Technology	247,225	1.38×	61C	1,674,527	$320.76	Analysis
43	SNDK Technology	217,140	1.25×	52C	968,871	$1,260.93	Analysis
44	BE Industrials	216,663	1.39×	56C	981,065	$217.77	Analysis
45	WULF Financial Services	209,389	0.87×	79C	3,368,705	$11.32	Analysis
46	PG Consumer Defensive	201,065	6.38×	90C	337,476	$165.59	Analysis
47	LRCX Technology	200,374	3.82×	36C	596,415	$230.15	Analysis
48	KWEB Financial Services	184,270	2.85×	53C	2,188,383	$23.21	Analysis
49	WMT Consumer Defensive	183,423	1.21×	75C	1,241,599	$121.12	Analysis
50	XLE Financial Services	180,852	1.36×	51C	3,736,854	$67.57	Analysis
51	MRVL Technology	173,999	1.04×	51C	1,578,136	$223.47	Analysis
52	XLF Financial Services	172,998	0.66×	35C	5,627,457	$56.65	Analysis
53	TSM Technology	166,323	1.14×	53C	1,850,369	$412.35	Analysis
54	MARA Financial Services	163,201	0.77×	65C	1,844,446	$7.25	Analysis
55	TSLL Financial Services	160,735	1.46×	68C	878,638	$9.88	Analysis
56	BABA Consumer Cyclical	153,685	1.35×	56C	1,836,084	$101.82	Analysis
57	COIN Financial Services	149,418	1.13×	71C	966,149	$169.09	Analysis
58	AAL Industrials	146,987	1.58×	36C	2,166,176	$12.60	Analysis
59	USO Financial Services	146,666	0.78×	53C	1,507,709	$162.51	Analysis
60	BAC Financial Services	143,706	0.82×	39C	2,462,386	$51.08	Analysis
61	CIFR Financial Services	140,989	0.84×	69C	1,937,854	$8.32	Analysis
62	XLP Financial Services	133,465	2.71×	19C	841,208	$89.99	Analysis
63	ASTS Technology	133,431	0.85×	49C	1,225,444	$38.77	Analysis
64	EEM Financial Services	132,731	1.59×	43C	4,260,374	$61.72	Analysis
65	RKLB Industrials	127,309	0.92×	42C	1,282,549	$51.22	Analysis
66	NU Financial Services	126,279	0.88×	69C	2,293,607	$14.73	Analysis
67	SQQQ Financial Services	121,328	1.45×	77C	417,072	$39.60	Analysis
68	KRE Financial Services	120,568	1.27×	27C	2,091,411	$72.41	Analysis
69	SOXX Financial Services	119,477	2.04×	30C	696,383	$475.69	Analysis
70	RIVN Consumer Cyclical	110,471	1.13×	51C	2,206,252	$12.06	Analysis
71	APLD Technology	109,004	0.96×	69C	908,868	$19.09	Analysis
72	IBM Technology	107,471	2.18×	61C	587,446	$252.11	Analysis
73	XLU Financial Services	107,299	0.65×	90C	2,696,513	$42.87	Analysis
74	NOW Technology	105,562	1.23×	62C	1,090,673	$157.00	Analysis
75	UVXY Financial Services	101,529	1.98×	78C	293,538	$18.41	Analysis
76	NKE Consumer Cyclical	100,572	0.53×	70C	2,222,250	$38.32	Analysis
77	LQD Financial Services	99,495	0.74×	26C	2,904,878	$104.28	Analysis
78	RKT Financial Services	98,184	1.28×	85C	1,093,772	$11.74	Analysis
79	UBER Technology	98,034	1.05×	49C	1,455,954	$69.07	Analysis
80	KHC Consumer Defensive	97,365	2.81×	92C	390,335	$25.09	Analysis
81	IEF Financial Services	97,045	1.02×	75C	1,508,654	$91.20	Analysis
82	ETN Industrials	94,886	7.94×	89C	141,711	$368.99	Analysis
83	DELL Technology	92,127	0.86×	47C	710,477	$452.95	Analysis
84	PCG Utilities	92,093	1.01×	87C	2,405,144	$12.98	Analysis
85	MRK Healthcare	90,337	3.86×	75C	508,509	$147.24	Analysis
86	WDC Technology	89,620	1.31×	61C	549,225	$354.19	Analysis
87	EWY Financial Services	86,492	0.99×	54C	1,248,812	$149.06	Analysis
88	COHR Technology	82,731	2.39×	32C	307,225	$207.82	Analysis
89	T Communication Services	82,194	1.21×	72C	1,105,876	$22.74	Analysis
90	ARM Technology	77,987	1.05×	47C	864,864	$210.10	Analysis
91	AMAT Technology	77,087	1.72×	39C	547,439	$375.58	Analysis
92	BMNR Financial Services	76,649	0.62×	59C	1,704,570	$22.50	Analysis
93	PFE Healthcare	76,568	0.96×	68C	2,200,341	$30.42	Analysis
94	VZ Communication Services	75,374	1.07×	62C	1,083,402	$45.20	Analysis
95	SKYD Communication Services	73,415	1.07×	91C	65,774	$7.79	Analysis
96	SOXS Financial Services	71,970	1.23×	58C	220,121	$53.45	Analysis
97	LULU Consumer Cyclical	70,158	2.10×	44C	475,314	$104.06	Analysis
98	CRWD Technology	69,601	0.83×	59C	1,238,132	$237.94	Analysis
99	UNH Healthcare	68,829	0.96×	58C	905,030	$424.98	Analysis
100	KO Consumer Defensive	68,343	1.49×	52C	702,583	$95.34	Analysis

Contracts, not premium — one contract of a $2 option counts the same as one contract of a $200 option. The call/put bar shows the share of today’s volume that traded on the call side. Ranked among the 805 symbols carrying at least 50,000 open contracts.

Biggest jump against their own average

The same session ranked a different way: names trading furthest above their own twenty-day norm, among those with at least 20,000 contracts today so the multiple means something.

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How this list is built

Volume is not the same as open interest

Volume counts contracts that changed hands today; open interest counts contracts that remain open. A name can trade heavily all day and end with no change in open interest, which means the day was traders passing the same positions between each other rather than new positioning being built.

Why the multiple beats the raw number

SPY, QQQ and the mega caps dominate any absolute volume list, every day, regardless of whether anything happened. Volume against a name’s own twenty-day average is the column that answers “is today different for this stock”.

What the call/put split does not tell you

A heavy call day is not a bullish day. Roughly 3.5% of option legs print with a visible aggressor, so for the rest there is no way to know whether the calls were bought or sold — and a sold call is the opposite trade. Read the split as where activity concentrated, never as a directional vote.

Looking for single large prints instead

This page aggregates a whole session per ticker. For individual outsized trades as they are detected, see unusual options activity.

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