QQQCOCT 15Open interest change
Open interest in QQQ calls expiring Oct 15 rose 92,613 at the Oct 14 settlement
60,603 to 153,216 contracts between the Oct 13 and Oct 14 settlements, 153% of the prior figure.
QQQ · PUTS · OCT 15Settled
Open interest in QQQ puts expiring Oct 15 rose 132,407 at the Oct 14 settlement
As of . The evidence table and the rule this settlement figure passed are at squawkflow.com/options-flow/2026-10-14/qqq-puts-oct-15-2026-open-interest-change. Source: Cboe settlement open interest archive.
97,381 to 229,788 contracts between the Oct 13 and Oct 14 settlements, 136% of the prior figure.
Evidence
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Open interest, earlier settlement | 97,381 |
| Open interest, later settlement | 229,788 |
| Change (contracts) | +132,407 |
| Change as a share of the earlier figure | 136% |
| Earlier settlement | Oct 13, 2026 |
| Later settlement | Oct 14, 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: 132,407; Change as a share of the earlier figure: 1.3597
- Contracts traded behind each figure
- Open interest changed: 119
- Baseline
- median absolute open interest change share, contracts within a week: 0.4517
- 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 14, 2026
All QQQ snapshots on the hub- QQQOCT 16Premium concentration
QQQ options expiring Oct 16 drew 51% of tracked QQQ est. premium on Oct 14
$324.5M est. of $636.5M est. across the QQQ strikes we track, by 16:14 ET. Calls $77.0M, puts $247.5M. Tracked: listed strikes in the 2 nearest expirations.
- QQQPNOV 20Put/call by expiry
QQQ puts expiring Nov 20 traded 2.7x the calls on that date
15,559 put and 5,810 call contracts by 09:54 ET on Oct 14, 2026. Est. premium $24.6M puts, $8.1M calls. Tracked: up to 40 strikes around the money across 32 expirations.
- QQQNear vs far dates
QQQ put/call volume ratio held at 0.93 within 3 weeks, against 2.33 1 to 3 months out
Within 3 weeks: 451,355 put and 483,335 call contracts. 1 to 3 months out: 18,792 put and 8,052 call contracts. By 09:54 ET on Oct 14, 2026. Tracked: up to 40 strikes around the money across 32 expirations.
- QQQC740OCT 14Volume vs open interest
QQQ 740 calls expiring Oct 14 (same day) traded 8.3x their open interest
QQQ calls expiring that date in the strikes we track traded 1.2x their open interest, by 09:35 ET on Oct 14, 2026. Tracked: up to 40 strikes around the money across 32 expirations.
- QQQOCT 14Same-day share
Same-day contracts accounted for 70% of tracked QQQ option volume by 09:35 ET
173,687 of 247,561 tracked contracts on Oct 14, 2026, puts 89,877 and calls 83,810. Tracked: up to 40 strikes around the money across 32 expirations.