The options tape was on fire today as the market digested a major reversal in Tesla (TSLA) and braced for Intel (INTC) earnings. Host Mark Longo breaks down the massive volume shifts across the top 10 most active names, including nearly 3.6 million contracts in TSLA alone. We also dive into the &quot;Death Cross&quot; scan from HotOptionsReport.com, identifying bearish technical signals in names like A.O. Smith (AOS) and Adamas (ADAMI). Plus, we analyze the heavy flow in Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), and the &quot;Monster&quot; strategy that dominated the tape. On Today&#x27;s Menu: The Death Cross Scan: Tracking the top bearish signals in the current market. Tesla&#x27;s Turn to the Dark Side: Why the post-earnings rally faded and what the 370 puts are signaling. Intel&#x27;s Massive Beat: Analyzing the 19% after-hours surge and the &quot;kiss of death&quot; for put buyers. Big Tech Breakdown: Unusual activity and price action in NVDA, AAPL, AMZN, and AMD. Get more options data at TheHotOptionsReport.com.

The Hot Options Report: 04-23-2026

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You're listening to The Options Insider Radio Network. For more quality options programs, visit www.theoptionsinsider.com or search for Options Insider Radio Network in your podcast provider of choice. Listeners can also access all of our programming through our mobile app, available in iTunes and on Google Play. Welcome to the Hot Options Report, your premier source for insight into the fast-moving options market.

Each day we'll track down the products that are dominating the options chains and impacting your trading account, from NVIDIA to VIX, and everything in between. If it's lighting up the options tape, then you'll find it on the Hot Options Report. All right, everybody, that music means it is time for your Hot Options Report.

For Thursday, April 23rd, my name of course, Mark Longo from The Options Insider Radio Network, your home now for 19 plus years of options goodness. And for the last few months so far this year, there's been some new options goodness to check out in the form of thehotoptionsreport.com. A whole bunch of great options analytics, including a lot of great pre-baked scans. Today's scan is the Death Cross scan. Sounds cool. What is it? It's a bearish signal.

Well, potentially a bearish signal, depending on how much of a technical believer you are, but potentially bearish signals coming when a 50-day moving average crosses the 200-day moving average from above, a.k.a. which names are triggering a Death Cross out there, listeners. There are currently 32 names lighting up this scan. We'll give you the top three. You can find the rest for yourselves.

Number three is A.O. Smith Corporation, ticker symbol AOS. Number two, we're going to ADNT PLC, ticker symbol ADNT, so across the pond for that one. And number one on the list today is Adamus Trust, Inc. Ticker symbol ADAMI, A-D-A-M-I. Check out this scan and everything else you can do over there at thehotoptionsreport.com. As we fire up our top ten for today, was it a banger day out there?

The answer was yes. Post-Tesla earnings, some shakeups on the geopolitical front. That usually tends to lead to a little bit of volume, and we saw nearly 600,000 contracts to break into the top ten today. Coming in at number ten is our old pal, the Monster, a.k.a. Strategy. They had a rock'em, sock'em day yesterday, rallying hard.

Giving some back today, they closed $172.47 off $6.89 out there today, listeners. And again, putting up nearly 600,000 contracts for the number ten spot on our countdown today. The hot option in the Monster, 28,000 of the 180s. These are expiring on Friday. Average price for these, $2.06.

And before you say, sold to you with both hands, looks like that's what somebody was doing today. And worth noting, there is OI on this strike, so they could have been getting the heck out of Dodge for $2.06. We'll keep an eye...

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