Options Market Statistics: Tesla Stock Falls on Friday; Investors Closely Focus on Tesla's Fourth-Quarter Deliveries, Options Pop

1. Shares of $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ slid 2.09% to $137.01 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the $S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$ falling 1.11% to 5,970.84 and $Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI.US)$ falling 0.77% to 42,992.21.

2. Shares of $Tesla (TSLA.US)$ fell 5%, closing at $431.66, the most traded puts are contracts of $430 strike price that expire on Dec 27. The total volume reaching 165,358 with the open interest of 11,932.

There was a noteworthy activity in $Nikola (NKLA.US)$, with $1 calls topping the highest volume to open interest ranking. The highest volume over open interest ratio reaches 144.0x with 35,285 contracts.

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