Market Summary - Aug 17 2021

Today, among the underlying components of the NYSE, we saw unusual or noteworthy options trading volume and activity in Bank of America Corporation (Symbol: BAC). A total of 8,000 contracts, representing 800,000 shares, were purchased on the $45 strike put option expiring January 20th, 2023, This was matched with another 8,000 contracts sold on the $30 strike put option also expiring January 20th, 2023, The purchased volume was over the open interest, which was 2,200. It is worth noting that these positions are coming in just ahead of the upcoming Jackson Hole event. Per the chart below, it is evident that there are now more bearishly positioned bets on the January 20th, 2023 expiration.

Today among the underlying components of NYSEArca, we saw unusual and noteworthy options trading volume on the ARK Innovation ETF (Symbol: ARKK). The lot size was 8,000 contracts sold, which has increased the volume on this strike to 8.62K as of this writing.In the market capitalization-weighted index NASDAQ Global Select Market Composite (NasdaqGS), we saw unusual or noteworthy options trading volume and activity today in Western Digital Corporation (Symbol: WDC). A total 16,191 contracts were purchased