QQQCOCT 14Open interest change
Open interest in QQQ calls expiring Oct 14 rose 54,865 at the Oct 13 settlement
47,667 to 102,532 contracts between the Oct 12 and Oct 13 settlements, 115% of the prior figure.
QQQ · PUTS · OCT 14Settled
Open interest in QQQ puts expiring Oct 14 rose 113,733 at the Oct 13 settlement
As of . Source: Cboe settlement open interest archive.
104,079 to 217,812 contracts between the Oct 12 and Oct 13 settlements, 109% of the prior figure.
Evidence
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Open interest, earlier settlement | 104,079 |
| Open interest, later settlement | 217,812 |
| Change (contracts) | +113,733 |
| Change as a share of the earlier figure | 109% |
| Earlier settlement | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Later settlement | Oct 13, 2026 |
| Days to expiry | 1 |
Why it fired
- Rule
- |change| >= 10000 or (>= 2000 and >= 50% of prior), and |change share| >= 2.0 x bucket median; prior OI >= 1000
- Values that cleared it
- Change: 113,733; Change as a share of the earlier figure: 1.0928
- Contracts traded behind each figure
- Open interest changed: 117
- Baseline
- median absolute open interest change share, contracts within a week: 0.4661
- Baseline window
- last 20 sessions
- Baseline n
- 20
- Claim level
- 0, a reported fact
What happened next
This snapshot is itself a settlement figure, so it has no follow-up of its own.
More QQQ snapshots, Oct 13, 2026
All QQQ snapshots on the hub- QQQCNOV 20Put/call by expiry
QQQ calls outnumbered puts 3.3 to 1 in contracts expiring Nov 20
10,780 call and 3,276 put contracts by 09:50 ET on Oct 13, 2026. Est. premium $15.4M calls, $5.3M puts. Tracked: up to 40 strikes around the money across 32 expirations.
- QQQCOCT 20Put/call by expiry
QQQ calls outnumbered puts 5.4 to 1 in contracts expiring Oct 20 (1 week out)
5,883 call and 1,084 put contracts by 09:45 ET on Oct 13, 2026. Est. premium $3.1M calls, $587K puts. Tracked: up to 40 strikes around the money across 32 expirations.
- QQQPOCT 19Put/call by expiry
QQQ puts expiring Oct 19 traded 2.9x the calls on that date
5,105 put and 1,772 call contracts by 09:39 ET on Oct 13, 2026. Est. premium $2.3M puts, $623K calls. Tracked: up to 40 strikes around the money across 32 expirations.
- QQQP739OCT 13Volume vs open interest
QQQ 739 puts expiring Oct 13 (same day) traded 6.3x their open interest
QQQ puts expiring that date in the strikes we track traded 0.8x their open interest, by 09:35 ET on Oct 13, 2026. Tracked: up to 40 strikes around the money across 32 expirations.
- QQQOCT 13Same-day share
Same-day contracts accounted for 71% of tracked QQQ option volume by 09:30 ET
10,073 of 14,148 tracked contracts on Oct 13, 2026, puts 6,088 and calls 3,985. Tracked: up to 40 strikes around the money across 32 expirations.