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Ainvest Option Flow Digest - 2026-04-16: 🌊 $299M Whale Tape — Smart Money Sells Into Earnings Pops While One Trader Bets on $SPY Breakout

$299M institutional option tape today, dominated by sellers — TSM $85M post-earnings call sale, SNDK $67M exit before Nasdaq-100 inclusion, NFLX $50M bear call spread hours before tonight's print. Plus a fresh SPY long-call bet on the FOMC + Mag 7 runway and an IWM synthetic short on small caps. Fou

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🐋 AXTI $1.9M Whale Dumps June Calls — Smart Money Unloads Into the AI Frenzy Before April 30 Earnings?

A $1.9M AXTI options block hit the tape on April 16, 2026. Someone just sold $1.9 MILLION worth of AXTI June $95 calls at 12:02 PM today — a short call position in a stock that's already up ~295% this year. This isn't a casual trade: 2,200 contracts changing hands in a single clip on a name… See the

🟠 MSTR $14.9M Multi-Leg Call Block — Whale Rolls Into Higher Strikes Before May 5 Earnings

A $14.9M MSTR options block hit the tape on April 16, 2026. At 09:32:27 this morning, a single trader executed four simultaneous call legs totaling $14.9M in premium on MSTR — all at ~8,000 contracts, all on the MID exchange, all at the open. The structure is a coordinated roll: selling a… See the f

🐋 MU $19M Sell-Call on Tomorrow's Expiration — Whale Pockets Premium at the Top?

A $19M MU options block hit the tape on April 16, 2026. Someone just sold $19 million worth of MU calls expiring tomorrow — deep in-the-money at the $415 strike while the stock sat at $460. This isn't a directional bet; it's institutional income harvesting or a closing move on a long call… See the f

🎬 NFLX $50M Bear Call Spread Hours Before Earnings — Whale Caps Upside at $120 Into Tonight's Print

A $49.8M NFLX options block hit the tape on April 16, 2026. Someone deployed a $50M two-leg options structure on NFLX this morning at 10:57:29 — simultaneously selling 104,658 contracts of the $120 strike call and buying 104,658 contracts of the $140 strike call, both expiring [date]. The trade… See

🐋 SANM $5.7M Short Call Stack — Whale Sells Upside Into April 27 Earnings

A $5.7M SANM options block hit the tape on April 16, 2026. Someone just sold $5.7 MILLION worth of SANM calls this morning — two separate strikes, same expiration, same timestamp — capping the upside on Sanmina Corporation 11 days before the company's most important earnings print of the year.… See

🐋 SNDK $67M Deep-ITM Call Sale — Whale Exits Day Before Nasdaq-100 Inclusion

A $67M SNDK options block hit the tape on April 16, 2026. Someone just sold $67 MILLION worth of deep in-the-money SNDK calls this morning at 10:27 — but the real story is what "deep" actually means here: the $580 strike is a staggering $338 below spot ($918.6), with only pennies of time value… See

🐋 TSM $85M Deep-ITM Call Sale Right After Q1 Earnings Beat — Smart Money Books June Profits

A $85M TSM options block hit the tape on April 16, 2026. Someone just sold $85 MILLION worth of TSM calls at 10:09 AM — less than an hour after TSMC's record-shattering Q1 2026 earnings dropped. The trade: 11,500 contracts of the $300 strike [date]call, sold with TSM trading at $368.27. That's… See

🐋 CRWV $14.3M Dual-Leg Options Tape — Whale Sells Covered $120 Calls, Books Near-Dated $115 Calls After Meta + Anthropic Deals

A $14.3M CRWV options block hit the tape on April 16, 2026. At 12:07:55 today, the same institutional player simultaneously sold 22,000 $120 calls for $9.4M and bought 24,000 $115 calls for $4.9M — a $14.3M two-legged structure printed at identical timestamps with spot CRWV at… See the

🐻 IWM $36M Synthetic Short — Whale Sells $25M Call & Buys $9.3M Put at the $260 Strike

A $36.3M IWM options block hit the tape on April 16, 2026. At 12:08 ET today, an institutional trader executed a $36.3M bearish multi-leg position on IWM — selling 15,000 contracts of the $260 call for $25M and simultaneously buying 15,000 contracts of the $260 put for $9.3M, both… See

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