Overnight, technology stocks and Chinese concept stocks mostly followed the rise of the US stock market.
<h3>Overview of US Stock Options Trading</h3>
Top ten US stock options trading overnight: Tesla, NVIDIA, Apple, AMD, Meta, Oracle, Boeing, Palantir, Amazon, Microsoft.
Among them:
Tesla slightly down, with options trading slightly up to 1.9 million contracts, with 54% being put options. Call options with a strike price of $180 expiring on March 15 traded over 140,000 contracts, while put options with strike prices of $170 traded nearly 120,000 contracts, and put options with strike prices of $230 and $220 both traded over 100,000 contracts.
NVIDIA surged over 7%, with options trading rising to 1.66 million contracts, with 66% being call options. Call options with a strike price of $900 traded nearly 90,000 contracts.
Apple slightly up, with options trading slightly down to 890,000 contracts, with 64.6% being call options. Call options with a strike price of $175 traded 95,000 contracts.
AMD rose over 2%, with options trading 670,000 contracts, with 57% being call options. Call options with a strike price of $200 traded nearly 50,000 contracts.
Meta rose over 3%, with options trading nearly 500,000 contracts, with 72% being call options.
Oracle surged nearly 12%, with options trading sharply up to 490,000 contracts, with 62% being call options. Call options with a strike price of $130 traded over 40,000 contracts.
Boeing dropped over 4%, with options trading sharply up to 460,000 contracts, with 66% being put options.
Wells Fargo rose nearly 1%, with options trading sharply up to 260,000 contracts, with 62% being call options. Call options expiring on April 19 with a strike price of $60 traded nearly 60,000 contracts.
TSMC rose nearly 4%, with options trading slightly down to 190,000 contracts, with 72% being call options.
Alibaba rose over 1%, with options trading up to 180,000 contracts, with 62% being call options.
JD.com rose 5%, with options trading up to 170,000 contracts, with 72% being call options.

Overnight, the hottest contracts were all related to Tesla: Over 140,000 call options with a strike price of $180 expiring on March 15th were traded, nearly 120,000 put options with a strike price of $170 were traded, and over 100,000 put options with strike prices of $230 and $220 were both traded.

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US stock options | BABA-SWR, JD, Oracle see significant increase in trading volume! Tesla put options are on fire.