TSLA Options Flow April 21 — $76.8M in Institutional Premium
TSLA dominated April 21 options flow with $76.8M across 611 signals. Total market premium hit $3.14B. Here's what the tape showed.
Tech carried the tape Tuesday. TSLA absorbed more institutional premium than any other name on the board, and the structure underneath that number was anything but clean.
The Tape
$3.14B in total premium. 8,758 signals. 308 of those graded A. The buy side held the edge at 56% — $1.77B against $1.37B in sells. VIX sitting at 19.4, not panicked, not complacent.
TSLA led everything. $76.8M across 611 signals. That's not one desk making a call — that's a full day of positioning across multiple structures. MU pulled $30.4M across 148 signals, and MSFT drew $28.6M across 113. Several other names generated conviction-level flow that didn't make this recap.
Tech as a sector printed $264.6M across 1,262 signals — nearly 2.5x the next closest sector. Consumer came in second at $106.6M, which TSLA almost single-handedly owns. Industrial saw $24.9M, concentrated in ways that will make more sense in the next section.
The scanner flagged 308 Grade A signals on Tuesday. This recap covers the surface.
What Stood Out
A $7.0M block on TSLA puts. Single print. 58-day horizon. That's a two-month position, sized like someone expects a resolution — not a hedge slapped on at the close.
What makes it more interesting: it landed on the same day three separate TSLA call contracts were being accumulated aggressively (more on that below). Someone was buying protection into a name where other participants were building long exposure. Those two things coexisting in the same ticker on the same day is the kind of tension the flow doesn't explain — it just shows you it exists.
Two other Grade A prints above $3.7M also fired Tuesday. Subscribers saw them in real time.
CAT also generated a print worth flagging — two opposing blocks, both eight-figure territory, both in the same expiration window. The shape of that trade is in the live feed.
The Pattern
TSLA accumulation ran all day across multiple call contracts. One contract logged 96 separate entries totaling $9.6M. A second hit 51 times for $4.3M. A third, also 51 hits, added another $4.0M. What is options accumulation — the short version is that 96 entries in a single contract isn't a coincidence. That's a program building a position.
AMZN saw its own accumulation pattern developing — 6 hits on one call contract totaling $5.3M, reinforced by a $3.8M sweep that crossed separately. Two structures pointing the same direction. The exact contracts are in the live feed.
The Receipts
Three closed positions worth showing:
- UNH calls — +345%
- AMZN calls — +309%
- UNH calls — +265%
Three prints. Three exits. All from flow the scanner flagged before the move. That's what Grade A signals look like after the fact.
Tuesday's tape had a thesis running underneath it — accumulated TSLA call exposure against a large put block, AMZN getting hit from two directions, and CAT seeing opposing institutional size in the same expiration. The full picture requires the full data.
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