Sep. 3 at 5:15 PM
$AMAT options flow lesson: chart and flow can disagree. Options activity describes the derivatives tape while the daily chart describes price structure. A disagreement is information, not an error to hide. The alert snapshot shows
$7.1M in the Nov 20
$440 calls. Volume was 7.8x standing open interest at capture. Intraday volume does not establish whether a position was opened or held; the next settled open interest is the check.