Trump visited China from May 13 to 15
Today's Options Opportunity Preview
Macroeconomic level, Trump's delegation will conduct a state visit to China from May 13-15, including high-level executives from the technology, finance, and aviation sectors. Expectations are that it may involve opportunities to streamline hardware infrastructure supply chains for the AI era, cross-border wealth management, ongoing liquidity tracking, and cooperation in the real economy. Nasdaq and S&P futures are up pre-market. From an options perspective, $Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ.US)$ The implied volatility (IV) reached 25.20%, with the IV percentile at 81%, indicating the market's expectation of increased volatility in the underlying asset.

At the individual stock level, the memory sector rose pre-market, $Micron Technology (MU.US)$ up 6.39%, $SanDisk (SNDK.US)$ up 5.26%. Option signals show that MU's put/call ratio reached 0.67, reflecting investors' short-term bullish bets on a momentum-driven rise.

$NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ rose 2.41% pre-market. CEO Jensen Huang temporarily changed his schedule to join Trump's visit to China. Option signals show that NVDA's put/call ratio reached 0.36, with an IV percentile of 80%, indicating market expectations for NVIDIA to continue its short-term upward trend after hitting new highs.

Review of yesterday's options market
Index Options
On May 12 Eastern Time, trading volume in the U.S. index options market increased, with a total of 5.94 million contracts traded. The put/call ratio fell to 1.14.
As the upcoming expiration date approaches, $S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$ The distribution of options trading volume showed the following characteristics: peak put option volume was at 7,355 points, and peak call option volume was at 7,435 points.

Single Stock Options
$Netflix (NFLX.US)$ closed up 2.59%, with 494,200 options contracts traded. The put/call volume ratio dropped to 0.38. Netflix released a 'Netflix Effect' report, stating that it has invested over $135 billion in film and TV production over the past decade.

$Intel (INTC.US)$ closed down 6.82%, with 999,500 options contracts traded. The put/call volume ratio rose to 1.10. Intel's share price fell nearly 7% amid higher-than-expected inflation data and a broad pullback in chip stocks.

Top list of options trading volume
Among the top 10 stocks by options trading volume, INTC had the highest put/call volume ratio, reaching 1.10.
The highest put/call open interest ratio is for INTC, reaching 1.17.

Implied volatility rankings (underlying market cap > $10 billion and options trading volume > 100,000)
$POET Technologies (POET.US)$Implied volatilityThe highest increase reached 164.45%, growing by 2.35% from the previous trading day. POET Technologies has appointed semiconductor industry veteran Sandeep Kumar as Chief Operating Officer, focusing on driving high-volume operations.

$Quantum Computing (QUBT.US)$ Implied volatility increased the most, reaching 110.84%, up 5.55% from the previous trading day. Quantum Computing's first-quarter revenue was $3.7 million, representing a year-over-year growth of 9,364%, with multiple analysts maintaining a buy rating.

Risk WarningAn option is a contract that gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an asset at a fixed price at any time on or before a specific date. The price of an option is influenced by various factors, including the current price of the underlying asset, the strike price, the time to expiration, and implied volatility. Implied volatility reflects the market's expectation of the option’s volatility over a certain period in the future. It is derived inversely from the Black-Scholes (BS) pricing model and is generally considered an indicator of market sentiment. When investors expect greater volatility, they may be more willing to pay higher prices for options to help hedge risks, leading to higher implied volatility. Traders and investors use implied volatility to evaluate.Option priceto enhance attractiveness, identify potential mispricing, and manage risk exposure.
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