5 things worth watching in options today

Whale new positions, dark pool surges, Gamma Flip and Max Pain, pre-earnings implied moves — picked by rules from public data, with a one-line AI note on each.

Picked 10/12 22:52 ET

1. 1
   UNHEARNINGS SOONas of 10/12

   Reports 10/13 before the open · implied move ±6.7%

   ✦ AIOptions for the 10/16 expiry, which contains the report, price in a ±6.7% move
2. 2
   INTCWHALE NEW POSITION10/9 session

   10/23 $115 call +35,418 contracts · $1.37B notional

   ✦ AIOne strike's open interest jumped more than nine times in a session, so new positions were opened
3. 3
   AMZNWHALE NEW POSITION10/9 session

   10/30 $275 call +24,817 contracts · $1.35B notional

   ✦ AIOne strike's open interest jumped nearly sixfold in a single session, so new positions were opened
4. 4
   BMYDARK POOL SURGEFINRA 10/12

   Dark pool share 35.6% · volume 2.3× its 20-day avg

   ✦ AIOff-exchange volume ran over twice its 20-day average, though its share of trading sits below the market
5. 5
   AAPLNEAR GAMMA FLIPas of 10/12

   0.21% above Gamma Flip $340 · 10/16 expiry

   ✦ AIJust above Gamma Flip, where dealer hedging tends to dampen moves

Picked by rules from stored public data (options open interest, FINRA, company-announced dates); AI writes only the one-line note on each item. Rules compute every number and date — AI does not create new ones. Dark pool data: FINRA.