# Options traders bet on stock highs ahead

> Despite weak market breadth, options traders are aggressively buying bullish positions, signalling confidence in new highs for major indexes and tech stocks.
- Title: Options traders bet on stock highs ahead · CNBC | Shortify
- Summary: Despite weak market breadth, options traders are aggressively buying bullish positions, signalling confidence in new highs for major indexes and tech stocks…
- Keywords: options trading, nasdaq 100, s&p 500, meta platforms, intel, micron, market breadth, bullish positions, business, finance, Options, traders
- Source: CNBC — https://cnbc.com/2026/09/22/no-new-stock-highs-no-problem-options-traders-bet-theyre-coming-in-these-names.html
- Author: Oliver Renick
- Published: 2026-09-22T17:22:27+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: options trading, nasdaq 100, s&p 500, meta platforms, intel, micron, market breadth, bullish positions, business, finance
## Market breadth signals weakness
S&P 500 futures trade at all-time highs, but on the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, 75 stocks made new 52-week lows versus just 14 making new highs.
## Options traders pile into bullish bets
Options traders are buying bullish positions in indexes and stock leaders, signalling confidence that new highs are coming despite current market weakness.
## Call buying hits highest levels
Monday's rally was so strong that institutional market-makers were caught offsides and had to buy upside calls. For the State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, the call to put ratio hit its highest since the first week of August.
## Nasdaq 100 odds exceed sixty seven percent
The Invesco QQQ Trust call to put ratio hit its highest in at least a year. Options pricing shows the Nasdaq 100 has more than a sixty seven percent chance of touching a new high by the end of the week.
## Tech leaders priced for record highs
Market-makers are pricing in new records for Meta Platforms, Intel and Micron before the end of the year. Meta has a fifty two percent chance of touching seven hundred ninety dollars by October second.
## Memory stocks join the rally
Memory stocks tracked by the Roundhill Memory ETF advanced two percent Tuesday. Options pricing points to a new high in Micron by October twenty third and for Sandisk by December eighteenth.
## Key takeaway

Options traders are betting heavily on new stock highs despite current market weakness, with pricing suggesting strong odds for the Nasdaq 100, Meta, Intel and Micron by year-end.