$Broadcom (AVGO.US)$'s entry into the elite group of stocks with a $1 trillion market capitalization has bolstered the appeal of its call options.
As of 2:36 p.m. in New York Friday, about more than 1.43 million Broadcom options, making it the third most active stock option, behind $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ and $Tesla (TSLA.US)$. More than two thirds of Broadcom's contracts were call options.
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$Super Micro Computer (SMCI.US)$ is seeing increasing demand for put options that could protect the holders against continued slump in the stock price.
Shares of the maker of high-powered servers tumbled more than 7% Monday morning, after the announcement late Friday that SMCI will be removed from the $NASDAQ 100 Index (.NDX.US)$ before the market opens on Dec. 23. Deletions from the index typically result from money outflows because...

$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ bears are selling millions of dollars in call options that could be profitable if the stock stays on a downward trajectory through early 2025.
On Monday, Nvidia logged its seventh decline in eight sessions, taking its losses from a record close to more than 10%. That meets the technical definition of a correction. The market leader in chips that power artificial intelligence applications (AI) extended its losses,...

$Apple (AAPL.US)$ joined $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$, $Tesla (TSLA.US)$ and $Palantir (PLTR.US)$ in the list for the four most active stock options as the iPhone maker's market cap nears $4 trillion.
Shares of Apple rallied 12% since the end of October, adding almost $400 billion to its market capital amid optimism over the positive impact on tech giants from growing demand for artificial intelligence. That's bigger than th...