Notable open interest changes for March 22nd

Thursday’s total option volume of 47.7 million contracts resulted in net open interest growth of 4.90 million calls and 4.91 million puts. Apple (AAPL), Tesla (TSLA), NVIDIA (NVDA) and Nike (NKE) saw the greatest growth. Top five new positions opened include 26k Apple (AAPL) 3/22 weekly 175 calls, 24k Apple (AAPL) 3/28 weekly 165 puts, 24k Virgin Galactic (SPCE) May-24 1 puts, 23k Intel (INTC) 3/28 weekly 45 calls and 22k JPMorgan (JPM) May-24 220 calls.