Thursday’s total option volume of 43.8 million contracts resulted in net open interest growth of 4.51 million calls and 4.36 million puts. Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Nikola (NKLA) and PayPal (PYPL) saw the greatest growth. Top five new positions opened include 41k Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) Sep-23 210 calls, 40k Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) Sep-23 210 puts, 34k Amazon (AMZN) Sep-23 95 puts, 34k Amazon (AMZN) Sep-23 95 calls and 33k Nikola (NKLA) 8/4 weekly 3 puts.
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