MU · PUTS · OCT 23Settled
Open interest in MU puts expiring Oct 23 (1 week out) rose 93,444 at the Oct 16 settlement
As of . Source: Cboe settlement open interest archive.
On the page at squawkflow.com/options-flow/2026-10-16/mu-puts-oct-23-2026-open-interest-change: the evidence table and the rule this settlement figure passed.
68,705 to 162,149 contracts between the Oct 15 and Oct 16 settlements, 136% of the prior figure.
Evidence
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Open interest, earlier settlement | 68,705 |
| Open interest, later settlement | 162,149 |
| Change (contracts) | +93,444 |
| Change as a share of the earlier figure | 136% |
| Earlier settlement | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Later settlement | Oct 16, 2026 |
| Days to expiry | 7 |
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: 93,444; Change as a share of the earlier figure: 1.3601
- Contracts traded behind each figure
- Open interest changed: 190
- Baseline
- median absolute open interest change share, contracts 1 to 3 weeks out: 0.1823
- Baseline window
- last 20 sessions
- Baseline n
- 9
- 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.