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Options Market Statistics: Option Trading Volume Surge as Semiconductor Sector Beating the Market

Shares of $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$  jumped by 24.37% close at $379.80, the biggest winning day of its history, as investors hold strong confidence in its future outlook. The options trading volume in the day increased dramatically to 2.75 million; the volume of the previous trading day was only 0.95 million. The most traded calls are the contracts with a strike price of $400.00, and the volume reached 139,804. The most sold puts are the $380 strike price contracts, with a volume of 62318. Both contracts expire on May 26th.

"Nvidia has surged 160% so far this year, crushing the Nasdaq's 21% gain. It's also the year's best performer in the S&P 500.”

Shares of $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$  also surged by 11.16%, close at $120.35 on Thursday. Its options trading volume reached 1.39 million. 90,243 call contracts expire on May 26th with a strike price of $120.00, and 25,752 put contracts expiring on the same day with a strike price of $115.00 being traded during the day.

Shares of $Microsoft(MSFT)$  went up by 3.85%, close at $325.92 on Thursday. Its options trading volume reached 0.7 million. The call contracts expiring on May 26th with a strike price of $325.00 have the most trading volume, with a volume of 42,072 contracts. The put contracts expiring on May 26th with a strike price of $320.00 have the most trading volume, with a volume of 23,145 contracts.

"Microsoft looks very structurally advantaged for this next large computing wave driven by AI, with Azure (AI/GPU optimized infrastructure), OpenAI (LLM), and network effects from first-party apps, a 1.5 billion-user Windows/Office and 100M-developer GitHub ecosystem.”

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