Wall Street's main indexes ended sharply higher on Monday(Oct 13), led by gains in Broadcom and other chipmakers, after President Donald Trump struck a conciliatory tone about renewed U.S.-China trade tensions, easing investor worries.

Regarding the options market, a total volume of 57,193,271 contracts was traded on Monday.

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Broadcom jumped 9.9% after announcing a partnership with OpenAI to develop and deploy 10 gigawatts of custom artificial-intelligence accelerators. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, will design the accelerators, while Broadcom will provide ethernet and other connectivity solutions at OpenAI's facilities and partner data centers.

A total number of 524.35K options related to Broadcom were traded on Monday, of which call options accounted for 65%. Particularly high volume was seen for the $400 strike call option expiring Oct. 17, with 23,046 contracts trading. $NVDA 20251017 195.0 CALL$

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Shares of Beyond Meat tumbled 49% on Monday after the plant-based meat maker announced an early settlement of an exchange offer for convertible bonds as it seeks to reduce debt following years of struggling sales.

A total number of 524.35K options related to Beyond Meat were traded on Monday, up 262% from the previous trading day, of which call options accounted for 50%. Particularly high volume was seen for the $1 strike call option expiring Oct. 17, with 100,111 contracts trading. $BYND 20251017 1.0 CALL$

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.

Based on option delta volume, traders sold a net equivalent of -564,870 shares of Pfizer stock. The largest bearish delta came from selling calls. The largest delta volume came from the 17-Oct-25 26 Call, with traders getting short 115,927 deltas on the single option contract.

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