🚨 QQQ’d Up, PTON Pumped & Darkpool Madness - May 20 Options Flow Breakdown
Big whales are back, ETF prints are wild, and PTON just flexed harder than your gym influencer ex 💪
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🧼 Golden Sweeps – ETF Breakdown (aka Where the Real Whales Live)
The ETF game was not quiet today. Flows were loud, proud, and packing heat.
💸 Notable Orders:
$QQQ – $24.7M in flow with massive call + put action. They’re hedging like Powell’s got mood swings. Top contract? $640C Jan ‘26, $1.98M sweep. Somebody's betting tech flies.
$SPY – $31.3M total flow, most of it puts. Looks like recession fears won’t die—just like the Fed's favorite word: “transitory.”
$GLD – Gold catching a fresh $8.3M bid. Safe haven vibes?
$IWM – Small cap ETF saw nearly $10M flow. Split like your uncle’s political takes—calls vs puts.
$META – 1 mega put play. $600 strike Jan '25 = $11.8M. Somebody’s feeling Zuck fatigue 😵💫.
Takeaway: Tech ETFs got volume, but the bears are lurking. $QQQ flows were tactical. $SPY… doom and gloom per usual. Gold creeping back? Don’t sleep.
🔱 GOLDEN SWEEPS – FULL ORDER BREAKDOWN
✅ $TSLA
$460C – Jul 18 '25 | 🌀 SWEEP
💸 $2.47M premium | 2,918 contracts @ $8.45
📍 Spot: $345.34 | IV: 67%
➕ Upside target within 14 months. Structured conviction play.$445C – Jul 18 '25 | 🌀 SWEEP
💸 $2.3M | 2,345 contracts @ $9.80
➕ Building layered call exposure. Bullish ladder.$470C – Jul 18 '25 | 🌀 SWEEP
💸 $1.98M | 2,556 contracts @ $7.75
➕ Chunked positioning. Someone’s building size over time.
✅ $QQQ
$640C – Jan 16 '26 | 🧱 BLOCK
💸 $1.98M | 5,000 contracts @ $3.80
📍 Spot: $519.47 | IV: 18%
➕ Long-dated moonshot. Tech breakout bet.
✅ $KLAC
$800C – Jun 20 '25 | 🧱 BLOCK
💸 $2.43M | 1,027 contracts @ $23.70
📍 Spot: $779.73 | IV: 34%
➕ High-delta semiconductor exposure. Possible earnings setup.
🤑 Golden Sweeps – Single Stock Showstoppers
This is the part where the money whispers sweet nothings into single stocks.
💥 Highlights:
$TSLA – $35.5M total flow, mostly calls. Elon’s back, baby! 🐐
$NVDA – Steady $11.7M flow. $130C for June got filled. AI chip mania ain’t dead yet.
$UNH – Healthcare with $10M in love. But someone really doesn’t trust it—check that put OI 👀.
$FSLR – Solar still has believers. $8.2M in calls.
$GOOGL – 6 flow hits, $6.8M total. Smart money nibbling at AI infra maybe?
Oh—and $META got smoked with nearly $14M in put action. Zuck's metaverse meltdown part 4?
Sentiment: Heavy bullish flows in TSLA, solar, and chips. Bearish outliers: META, SPY, and maybe your $TGT calls from last week 💀.
🔍 Unusual Activity – Degeneracy or Genius? We Investigate
These are the “huh?” trades that either end in Ferraris or margin calls.
🌀 Notable Degens & High Conviction Plays:
🚲 $PTON
$7C – Jul 18 '25 | 🧱 BLOCK
💸 $109M | 28,040 contracts @ $0.39
📍 IV: 61%
🧠 This is either insider info or someone’s been drinking too much pre-workout.
🧬 $MGNI
$21C – Dec 19 '25 | 🧱 BLOCK
💸 $478K | 2,991 contracts @ $1.60
📍 IV: 58%
💥 Small cap adtech name. Super low OI. Could be a stealth setup.
⚡ $CORZ
$14C – Jul 18 '25 | 🧱 BLOCK
💸 $115K | 2,500 contracts @ $0.46
📍 IV: 335%
🚨 Absolute YOLO. Likely an insider trade or an adrenaline junkie.
💊 $PFE
$15P – Jun 18 '25 | 🧱 BLOCK
💸 $95K | 2,500 contracts @ $0.38
📍 IV: 32%
🤏 Small but suspicious. Somebody's hedging a pipeline flop?
🛢️ $HAL
$15P – Jun 18 '25 | 🧱 BLOCK
💸 $94.5K | 900 contracts @ $1.05
📍 IV: 43%
🧐 Crude outlook trade? Someone thinks oil rolls over hard.
📈 $TSLL (2x TSLA ETF)
$20C – Jun 16 '25 | 🧱 BLOCK
💸 $85.6K | 1,084 contracts @ $0.79
📍 IV: 134%
🔥 Leveraged ETF with high IV = bold directional bet.
🧠 $GILD
$110C – Jun 20 '25 | 🧱 BLOCK
💸 $119K | 4,500 contracts @ $2.64
📍 IV: 33%
🔬 Biotech bid. Quiet but clean.
🕵️ Darkpool Tape – Silent But Deadly
Massive blocks printed in stealth mode. No tweets. No noise. Just size.
🐳 Notables:
$IVV – Over $3.8 BILLION total across 5+ identical prints. Looped 1.3M+ shares over and over again. Algo? Rebalance? Someone's cooking.
$EFV – $1.4B printed. Nobody talks about it, but someone clearly loves it.
$THRO – $1.4B+ in block trades at $34.18. Quiet fund rotation?
$QQQ – $391M block. Right before the morning squeeze. Somebody’s early… or lucky.
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✅ Final Takeaways
⚡ $TSLA and $QQQ = institutional bullish setups
⚠️ META, SPY, and even HAL getting bearish bets placed quietly
👀 $PTON’s $109M flow? Wild. If they’re wrong, someone’s losing their desk
🕶️ $IVV & $EFV darkpools = massive institutional footprints
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