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.

September 8, 2026 · 864 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	9,903,343	0.97×	45C	19,587,597	$770.19	Analysis
2	QQQ Financial Services	7,394,736	1.07×	50C	12,439,673	$718.96	Analysis
3	NVDA Technology	5,458,993	1.54×	65C	16,025,398	$230.36	Analysis
4	TSLA Consumer Cyclical	3,947,026	1.48×	59C	6,095,526	$354.08	Analysis
5	AAPL Technology	2,163,477	1.62×	63C	4,931,606	$319.97	Analysis
6	MU Technology	1,612,771	1.69×	60C	3,364,458	$1,016.59	Analysis
7	IWM Financial Services	1,095,108	0.82×	44C	10,391,695	$296.01	Analysis
8	VIX Index	1,048,161	1.40×	82C	13,303,048	$14.53	Analysis
9	INTC Technology	973,984	1.36×	69C	6,261,684	$95.80	Analysis
10	SPCX Financial Services	818,685	0.87×	56C	4,414,868	$147.95	Analysis
11	AMZN Consumer Cyclical	799,582	1.01×	68C	4,668,963	$258.51	Analysis
12	MSTR Technology	763,218	1.46×	62C	2,913,508	$142.80	Analysis
13	IBIT	754,453	0.90×	65C	7,826,421	$45.23	Analysis
14	META Technology	708,952	0.99×	62C	3,418,384	$616.77	Analysis
15	SMCI Technology	630,187	1.99×	81C	2,326,082	$39.59	Analysis
16	AMD Technology	608,381	1.36×	64C	3,222,724	$477.57	Analysis
17	GOOGL Technology	541,409	1.37×	69C	3,450,186	$338.46	Analysis
18	SOXL Financial Services	535,330	1.86×	51C	1,609,414	$117.28	Analysis
19	AVGO Technology	532,254	1.62×	70C	2,549,519	$357.89	Analysis
20	IREN Financial Services	531,786	1.78×	74C	2,736,058	$44.68	Analysis
21	PLTR Technology	508,145	0.98×	48C	3,709,526	$174.33	Analysis
22	NFLX Communication Services	505,071	1.62×	67C	5,230,249	$78.25	Analysis
23	SNDK Technology	503,719	2.05×	57C	993,234	$1,740.00	Analysis
24	TLT Financial Services	496,524	0.72×	74C	12,360,004	$82.21	Analysis
25	MSFT Technology	427,378	0.81×	60C	3,960,573	$499.70	Analysis
26	SPX Index	412,788	0.87×	38C	18,282,052	$7,718.60	Analysis
27	LULU Consumer Cyclical	403,679	7.63×	45C	486,220	$100.61	Analysis
28	SMH Financial Services	393,199	1.90×	37C	1,916,292	$567.01	Analysis
29	HOOD Financial Services	386,807	1.56×	66C	1,810,378	$122.11	Analysis
30	GLD Financial Services	378,755	0.64×	59C	6,920,441	$406.77	Analysis
31	ORCL Technology	367,199	1.37×	73C	3,203,989	$158.78	Analysis
32	MARA Financial Services	367,130	1.64×	71C	1,899,150	$11.31	Analysis
33	SOFI Financial Services	360,068	1.08×	72C	4,076,912	$18.22	Analysis
34	DELL Technology	337,475	2.29×	53C	891,670	$524.14	Analysis
35	TQQQ Financial Services	330,337	1.34×	48C	1,660,064	$72.37	Analysis
36	PCG Utilities	316,909	1.42×	91C	2,726,005	$14.30	Analysis
37	SLV Financial Services	310,865	0.74×	59C	6,731,231	$59.82	Analysis
38	BE Industrials	302,815	2.42×	58C	1,021,249	$252.87	Analysis
39	HYG Financial Services	299,759	0.99×	9C	8,391,758	$79.16	Analysis
40	CIFR Financial Services	293,212	1.81×	67C	1,671,439	$17.74	Analysis
41	CRWV Technology	289,541	1.20×	68C	2,269,576	$89.36	Analysis
42	XSP Index	279,118	1.15×	50C	783,047	$771.86	Analysis
43	MRVL Technology	270,605	1.26×	64C	1,845,041	$223.55	Analysis
44	GDX Financial Services	263,995	1.33×	59C	2,783,426	$99.26	Analysis
45	EWZ Financial Services	232,749	0.77×	53C	6,705,778	$37.86	Analysis
46	TSLL Financial Services	228,887	1.95×	64C	908,212	$9.15	Analysis
47	NBIS Communication Services	226,276	0.98×	61C	1,380,390	$226.39	Analysis
48	SKHY Technology	216,184	1.83×	61C	953,203	$177.00	Analysis
49	VFC Consumer Cyclical	215,175	10.55×	3C	639,418	$13.45	Analysis
50	PATH Technology	212,116	3.95×	53C	693,243	$15.19	Analysis
51	AI Technology	204,032	4.21×	94C	370,350	$10.46	Analysis
52	ETHA Financial Services	193,664	0.84×	65C	2,481,715	$18.52	Analysis
53	BMNR Financial Services	191,075	1.12×	70C	1,673,089	$24.97	Analysis
54	GME Consumer Cyclical	189,488	1.57×	88C	1,718,724	$19.16	Analysis
55	COIN Financial Services	185,289	1.05×	63C	1,178,275	$184.64	Analysis
56	USO Financial Services	179,057	1.15×	50C	1,636,082	$141.96	Analysis
57	GOOG Technology	178,008	1.18×	68C	1,820,214	$335.31	Analysis
58	KWEB Financial Services	176,786	1.76×	85C	2,501,185	$26.05	Analysis
59	NKE Consumer Cyclical	173,303	1.09×	69C	2,187,421	$38.40	Analysis
60	EEM Financial Services	165,031	1.25×	69C	5,340,970	$68.70	Analysis
61	SNOW Technology	161,836	2.83×	62C	706,885	$337.18	Analysis
62	TSM Technology	149,598	1.46×	58C	1,941,187	$428.91	Analysis
63	WMT Consumer Defensive	140,765	0.72×	66C	1,266,111	$107.14	Analysis
64	CRCL Financial Services	136,780	1.28×	61C	856,506	$102.05	Analysis
65	ASTS Technology	133,805	1.15×	72C	1,167,082	$62.31	Analysis
66	EWY Financial Services	129,225	1.52×	58C	1,178,680	$188.87	Analysis
67	HPE Technology	127,715	1.78×	81C	729,975	$52.00	Analysis
68	LQD Financial Services	125,085	1.36×	16C	2,276,771	$105.48	Analysis
69	NOK Technology	118,507	0.81×	87C	3,702,769	$10.03	Analysis
70	RKT Financial Services	117,814	1.67×	88C	1,233,215	$14.06	Analysis
71	BABA Consumer Cyclical	117,340	0.67×	69C	2,367,471	$113.24	Analysis
72	MRNA Healthcare	116,488	0.62×	71C	979,299	$145.55	Analysis
73	RKLB Industrials	113,313	0.99×	75C	1,193,978	$64.26	Analysis
74	UBER Technology	107,734	1.01×	58C	1,353,923	$75.76	Analysis
75	T Communication Services	103,409	1.56×	53C	1,136,504	$25.68	Analysis
76	F Consumer Cyclical	103,067	1.30×	63C	1,866,759	$14.62	Analysis
77	XLE Financial Services	102,959	0.64×	33C	4,571,981	$64.06	Analysis
78	BAC Financial Services	100,731	0.73×	64C	2,306,040	$62.68	Analysis
79	XLF Financial Services	100,381	0.76×	66C	6,327,203	$58.10	Analysis
80	PYPL Financial Services	98,035	1.32×	87C	1,863,392	$54.96	Analysis
81	SQQQ Financial Services	97,562	1.29×	75C	534,589	$38.18	Analysis
82	WULF Financial Services	95,259	0.61×	77C	2,747,179	$16.51	Analysis
83	KHC Consumer Defensive	95,240	2.37×	94C	406,476	$24.85	Analysis
84	APLD Technology	94,368	1.41×	69C	852,768	$26.37	Analysis
85	NOW Technology	91,811	0.78×	54C	1,259,772	$141.26	Analysis
86	WBD Communication Services	91,370	1.12×	40C	3,039,460	$28.25	Analysis
87	PL Industrials	89,713	3.51×	65C	415,745	$18.12	Analysis
88	ZS Technology	88,350	3.45×	62C	282,467	$169.80	Analysis
89	PFE Healthcare	88,110	0.72×	78C	2,579,936	$28.45	Analysis
90	ONDS Technology	87,784	0.56×	64C	1,842,441	$7.62	Analysis
91	RIOT Financial Services	87,532	0.74×	61C	1,001,314	$21.80	Analysis
92	CRWD Technology	85,861	0.84×	53C	1,345,481	$213.10	Analysis
93	POET Technology	83,747	2.22×	84C	1,074,039	$7.92	Analysis
94	CRM Technology	83,300	0.70×	42C	1,008,555	$259.23	Analysis
95	SILJ Financial Services	79,041	1.91×	51C	582,097	$31.68	Analysis
96	ADBE Technology	78,607	2.16×	57C	703,795	$266.51	Analysis
97	RIVN Consumer Cyclical	77,453	0.86×	69C	2,366,008	$15.74	Analysis
98	TTD Technology	74,022	0.99×	72C	1,030,011	$14.43	Analysis
99	CORZ Technology	72,509	1.03×	91C	1,717,077	$17.89	Analysis
100	SIRI Communication Services	72,124	3.49×	100C	370,864	$28.99	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 864 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.

Other rankings

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