U.S. stocks advanced on Thursday (May 14), lifted by a rally in tech stocks as investors absorbed generally solid economic data and watched for developments from Beijing, where U.S. President Trump was engaged in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
Regarding the options market, a total volume of 68,553,465 contracts was traded on Thursday.
Top 10 Option Volumes
Top 10: NVIDIA, Tesla Motors, Nokia Oyj, Ford, Ondas Holdings Inc., Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cboe Volatility Index, Strategy
NVIDIA’s market cap reached a record $5.7 trillion on Thursday as the AI chip heavyweight’s stock surged more than 4% to notch a record high.
A total number of 5.02 million options related to NVIDIA were traded on Thursday, of which call options accounted for 73%. Particularly high volume was seen for the $235 strike call option expiring May 15, with 443,576 contracts trading. For example, the $235 strike call option expiring this Friday soared 220%. $NVDA 20260515 235.0 CALL$
Intel stock fell 4% on Thursday.
A total number of 817.86K options related to Intel were traded on Thursday, of which call options accounted for 58%. Particularly high volume was seen for the $110 strike put option expiring May 15, with 59,466 contracts trading. $INTC 20260515 110.0 PUT$
Unusual Options Activity
Shares of Ondas Holdings Inc. surged 27% Thursday after the autonomous drone play, and Palantir partner, reported better-than-expected first-quarter revenue and raised its full-year outlook on the strength of its backlog growing 569% since the end of 2025.
A total number of 847.80K options related to Ondas Holdings Inc. were traded on Thursday, of which call options accounted for 80%. Particularly high volume was seen for the $11 strike call option expiring May 15, with 63,879 contracts trading. $ONDS 20260515 11.0 CALL$
TOP Bullish & Bearish Single Stocks
This report shows stocks with the highest volume of bullish and bearish activity by option delta volume, which converts option volume to an equivalent stock volume (bought or sold).
If we take the total positive option delta volume and subtract the total negative option delta volume, we will get the net imbalance. If the net imbalance is positive, there is more bullish pressure. If the net is negative, there is more bearish pressure.
Top 10 bullish stocks: Circle Internet Corp., Citigroup, NEBIUS, Warner Bros. Discovery, Unity Software Inc., Block, Inc., Oracle, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, SoundHound AI Inc, TeraWulf Inc.
Top 10 bearish stocks: Amazon.com, Lucid Group Inc, NVIDIA, Devon, GameStop, Tesla Motors, Nike, GE HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES INC, Fermi Inc., AMC Entertainment
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