Notable open interest changes for February 28th

Thursday’s total option volume of 67.3 million contracts resulted in net open interest growth of 6.69 million calls and 4.22 million puts. NVIDIA (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Lucid Group (LCID) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) saw the greatest growth. Top five new positions opened include 175k NVIDIA (NVDA) 3/7 weekly 115 puts, 58k Lucid Group (LCID) Dec-25 1.5 puts, 54k NVIDIA (NVDA) 2/28 weekly 132 calls, 46k Medical Properties Trust (MPW) Jun-25 4.5 puts and 44k NVIDIA (NVDA) Mar-25 153 calls.