Big Bets & Bigger Reversals: The Market’s Weekly Money Moves 💸
From $SPY puts to $TSLA moonshots, here’s what the whales really bought this week—decoded so even your cousin who trades on Robinhood gets it. 🐋📉📈
🚨 Another week, another wave of degens lighting up the options tape! From AI pumps to tech dumps, the flow was spicy—and yes, the whales are absolutely still cooking. Let’s get into what really mattered this week, minus the CNBC fluff.
💸 Golden Sweeps (ETF Edition) – The Big Bet Bonanza
🔍 Translation: Huge one-directional bets from big-money players, all in one go. Think of it as a slot machine pull… but they know the payout odds.
🥇 $SPY
Most popular kid on the block—again. $211M in flow, led by $45M in calls but a jaw-dropping $166M in puts 😨
Top contract? That $SPY 6/30 $580P 🔻—someone is betting HARD on pain.
📉 $QQQ
$95M in total flow, $52.7M in puts. Nasdaq's high-flyers have some skeptics.
Most repeated? $QQQ 6/20 $530P 👀
🚀 $TSLA
$176M in calls vs $14M in puts = full bull mode 🐂
That $TSLA 6/20 $400C got tagged repeatedly. Musk cult is alive and well.
💰 Golden Sweeps (Non-ETF) – Where the Real Juice Is
🔋 $NVDA
$90M in flow. $60M calls, $30M puts. Semi bulls holding steady.
Most action on $NVDA 6/20 $1040C—yep, people are still dreaming big 💭
💾 $GOOGL & $GOOG
Combined ~$69M in call action across both tickers.
The $GOOGL 1/16/26 $225C saw a $4.8M block…long-dated big brain energy 🧠
🔥 $ARM
Quietly moving $30M in flow. All calls. All heat. No noise.
AI infrastructure still trending under the radar.
🏦 $AAPL
Mix of longs and hedges. $31M total flow. More $120M in put OI = caution?
Classic fade-the-Apple-rally setup incoming?
🔍 Unusual Options Activity – The WTF Wall Street Moves
Let’s just say...not all these trades came from retail. Here's some activity that stood out:
🧪 $CDNS – 1/15/27 $370C
$4.65M block dropped on low OI. Long dated. Quiet name = 👀
🤖 $MSFT – 12/19/25 $500C
A string of sweeps around $5M total. Sat at resistance, now it’s prepping liftoff?
🧵 $META – 1/16/26 $600P
Big bear bet, mid-week. $11.8M. Are the metaverse dreams fading again?
🌑 Dark Pool Dominance – Where the Real Whales Swim
If you think options flow is big, wait 'til you see the dark pool.
💼 $IVV – $977M in prints
Monster blocks traded like candy. 1.6M+ shares across multiple timestamps.
SPY’s cousin is getting big institutional love. Passive flows much?
🏦 $MSFT – $457M
Not just options—dark pool was moving huge sizes in the AI king too.
🧪 $TLH, $VOO, $QQQ
Big time prints = big boy rebalancing? Could be positioning ahead of June data.
📊 Flow Scanner Highlights – Top Names by Total Flow
🔥 Final Take – Who’s Winning This Tape?
📈 Bullish for AI & Tech: $NVDA, $MSFT, $GOOGL saw repeat flow and confidence. 📉 Bearish bets on broader indexes: $SPY & $QQQ puts lead the charge—hedging? Or warning? 👀 Keep your eyes on: Unusual long-dated tech calls ($CDNS, $GOOGL), which could signal future upside.
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