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October 9 Recap: Balanced Tape, MU $1.5B Bearish, SPX GEX Positive

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$15.4B in single-name premium, 23% bullish versus 23% bearish. MU led at $1.5B Bearish; SPX GEX was +$54.45B.

This edition reads TradingFlow’s Daily Market Recap for October 9, 2026, captured on October 13. The quoted figures agreed across two runs. This is a completed-session report, not a trade recommendation.

Keep two clocks separate: premium, sentiment, and prints describe the session tape; GEX and IV are the recap’s T+1 / prior-close snapshots. This historical recap is not a live intraday gamma map.

$15.4B, 67% calls, 23% bullish versus 23% bearish. MU led at $1.5B Bearish; SPX net GEX printed +54.45B, Positive.

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What the recap printed

October 9 session KPI strip

Test app, session 2026-10-09, KPI. Captured October 13, 2026.

ReadingRecap value
Single-name premium$15.4B
Call / Put67% / 33%
Bullish / Bearish23% / 23%
Overall tonewas balanced
First 30-minute window09:30 · $2.3B

Sentiment bars: Neutral $8.5B, Bullish $3.5B, Bearish $3.5B. Call share is option type, not bullish sentiment. Neutral premium supplies no direction; rounded buckets need not sum exactly to the rounded KPI total.

October 9 premium by sentiment

Test app, session 2026-10-09, Step 1. Captured October 13, 2026.

Leaders: where premium concentrated

October 9 top names by premium

Test app, session 2026-10-09, Step 2. Captured October 13, 2026.

SymbolPremiumCallPutNet bias
MU$1.5B$797M$708MBearish
TSLA$1.3B$868M$396MBullish
NVDA$1.1B$777M$305MBearish
SNDK$1.0B$618M$388MBearish
AMD$602M$439M$162MBearish
PLTR$494M$396M$98MBullish

MU, NVDA, SNDK, and AMD were Bearish, while TSLA and PLTR were Bullish. The balanced market-wide split coexisted with opposing tags among the heaviest names.

The bottom line and glance show MU $1.5B; the leaders table and headline cards show MU $1.5B. Preserve these field readings rather than reconciling them into a new number.

October 9 bottom line and glance

Test app, session 2026-10-09, Bottom line / glance. Captured October 13, 2026.

Exposure and volatility context

The glance lists PLTR +1M shares-equiv. as largest Net DEX and TSLA 342% as largest Net DEI magnitude. Step 4 prints TSLA 342%, with Positive Net DEX. DEI is an unsigned activity-relative magnitude; DEX provides a separate signed classification. Neither proves opening intent or actual dealer inventory.

Step 5’s highest IV rank among active names is AAPL 64 / 100, with 28.3% 30-day implied volatility. This is snapshot volatility context, not realized session volatility.

Index GEX: SPX Positive

October 9 index GEX backdrop

Test app, session 2026-10-09, Step 6 · T+1. Captured October 13, 2026.

IndexNet GEX ($B)Regime
SPX+54.45Positive
SPY+17.27Positive
IWM−2.59Negative
QQQ+1.14Positive
NDX+0.39Positive
DIA+0.21Positive

SPX, SPY, QQQ, NDX, and DIA were Positive. IWM was the Negative exception. This is a split structural backdrop, not one universal market regime.

GEX describes modeled chain structure under TradingFlow’s dealer-sign convention. The regime does not establish observed dealer inventory, a support level, a pin target, or the next session’s direction.

Headline name: MU at $1,029

MU headline cards for October 9

Test app, session 2026-10-09, Step 8. Captured October 13, 2026.

Cards: last $1,029, premium $1.5B, 53% calls, 19% bullish, 63% average IV on traded contracts. The headline name is selected by premium, not by the largest price move.

TimeTypeStrikeExpiryPremiumSentiment
12:03CALL1,1502026-12-18$30MBULLISH
10:39CALL1,2002027-03-19$10MBEARISH
12:03CALL1,3802026-12-18$8MBEARISH
13:31PUT8002028-01-21$7MBEARISH
11:26PUT1,0602026-10-16$7MBEARISH
10:12PUT2,4802028-06-16$6MNEUTRAL

MU biggest prints for October 9

Test app, session 2026-10-09, Step 8 · prints. Captured October 13, 2026.

The largest listed ticket was 12:03 1,150 CALL, expiry 2026-12-18, premium $30M, tagged BULLISH. The largest displayed ticket was Bullish, although MU’s overall leaders-table tag was Bearish. A large ticket can disagree with the aggregate classification.

Ticket tags do not prove who bought or sold, whether a position opened, or whether adjacent prints form a single strategy.

Movers: PDSB +33.9%

October 9 intraday movers

Test app, session 2026-10-09, Step 7. Captured October 13, 2026.

Bottom line: PDSB +33.9%. Step 7 in both runs: PDSB 34.0%, Up. Keep both displayed fields. The bottom line names the largest gain; Step 7’s key can select a gain or loss across runs.

Some lower mover rows changed order between runs; the quoted leading-mover values stayed the same.

The intraday_pct reading is a first-to-last underlying-price proxy in the option tape. It is not an independently verified daily stock return, and movers do not prove flow causality.

What this session is evidence of

QuestionTradingFlow readingClock
Size / tone$15.4B · 23% Bullish / 23% BearishSession tape
ConcentrationMU $1.5B BearishSession leaders
Relative exposureTSLA DEI 342% · DEX PositiveSession exposure
VolatilityAAPL IV rank 64 · IV 28.3%T+1
Index structureSPX +54.45B PositiveT+1
Largest printMU 1,150 CALL 2026-12-18 $30M BULLISHSession ticket

Reproduce the findings

  1. Open the October 9 recap; confirm Oct 9, 2026 in the session KPI.
  2. Record the KPI strip and Step 1 sentiment before reading the leaders.
  3. Compare MU’s leaders-table tag, headline cards, and largest ticket.
  4. Read Steps 4–6 separately: exposure magnitude, volatility rank, and all six index GEX rows.
  5. Keep both mover fields, the session date, and the snapshot clock. Stop before turning a report into a buy/sell instruction.

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