Not by itself. The 30 October put activity looks more like cheap, far-out-of-the-money tail protection or a structured hedge than a high-conviction near-term bearish bet on
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The conspicuous bought puts were the $550 strike (5,200 contracts at $0.15) and $600 strike (3,000 at $0.20) on 2026-10-23. With MU at $905.85 on 2026-10-27, those strikes were respectively 39.3% and 33.8% below spot by the 2026-10-30 expiry. The chain assigns them deltas near zero and buyer profit probabilities of just 0.11% and 0.19% . That is not the profile of a trader expecting a routine post-earnings pullback.
The option-chain data now show large new open interest at those strikes— +5,529 contracts at $550 and +4,752 at $600 —so the trades appear to have opened positions. But the tiny premiums and extreme distance from spot point to disaster insurance, not a view that MU is likely to finish below $600 this week.
Broader flow is not uniformly bearish. The chain’s call/put ac