🐳 FLOW — $MSFT: $40.5M traded in near-the-money options today, 80% in CALLS.
Biggest contract: $460 call — $6.3M (19,817 contracts).
Flow leans bullish. (Dollar-flow read — our feed has no open-interest data.) Educational, not advice.
🚨 UNUSUAL — volume running multiples of open interest (fresh positioning, today):
$465 put exp 2026-07-31: 639 traded vs 123 OI (5.2x)
$437.5 call exp 2026-08-03: 587 traded vs 136 OI (4.3x)
🏗 OI BUILD — positions opened AND HELD overnight (the stable signal):
$447.5 put exp 2026-07-31: OI +5,333 → 5,343
$445 put exp 2026-07-31: OI +5,306 → 5,351
$450 put exp 2026-07-31: OI +5,272 → 5,493
🧹 SWEEP-STYLE — one order split across exchanges in <1s (grabbing liquidity fast):
$460 call 07/31: 298 contracts across 13 exchanges = $104k (09:54 ET)
$460 call 07/31: 250 contracts across 8 exchanges = $77k (09:38 ET)
$460 call 07/31: 167 contracts across 6 exchanges = $61k (09:38 ET)
💥 BIG PRINTS — single trades with serious premium today:
$465 put 07/31: 248 contracts @ $7.75 = $192k (09:31 ET)
$465 put 07/31: 249 contracts @ $6.75 = $168k (09:51 ET)
$460 call 07/31: 155 contracts @ $3.47 = $54k (09:54 ET)