Notable open interest changes for March 12th

Monday’s total option volume of 41.9 million contracts resulted in net open interest growth of 4.82 million calls and 4.48 million puts. NVIDIA (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Oracle (ORCL) and Meta Platforms (Facebook) (META) saw the greatest growth. Top five new positions opened include 43k Citi (C) Mar-24 57 calls, 40k Wal-Mart (WMT) 4/12 weekly 62 calls, 35k Marathon Patent Group (MARA) Mar-24 21.5 calls, 35k Patterson-UTI (PTEN) Apr-24 10 puts and 29k Geron (GERN) Mar-24 2 puts.