Microsoft Corporation
NASDAQMicrosoft closed Monday at $393.83, down 2.4% on the week and 6.7% lower on the month — and the options market, which appeared to calm last week, has just reignited. The most striking development is in options positioning. The put/call ratio jumped to 0.45 on Monday, more than 3.7 standard deviations above its 20-day average of 0.35. That reading is almost identical to the…
MSFT put/call ratio surges to 0.47, hitting a four-standard-deviation extreme above its 20-day mean—the most defensive options positioning in months as stock slides 1.5% on the day.
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Read on ORTEX →Sign up for premiumMicrosoft closed Monday at $393.83, down 2.4% on the week and 6.7% lower on the month — and the options market, which appeared to calm last week, has just reignited. The most striking development is in options…
Snapshot as of 21 Jun 2026
Microsoft has now shed 7% in a week to $397.36. The options market is screaming louder than anything in the lending data. The put/call ratio hit 0.47 on June 10. That is four standard deviations above the 20-day mean…
Microsoft has now dropped another 3.4% since Sunday's note, closing at $403.41 — extending a brutal eight-session slide that has taken the stock down nearly 9% on the week — and the sharpest signal this time comes not…
Microsoft pulled back 4.2% on Tuesday to $441.31 — handing back a chunk of last week's 6.1% rally — yet the analyst community responded by raising targets, not cutting them. That divergence between price action and…
Microsoft ends the week with its options market stuck in an unusually defensive posture — and the data suggests this is no longer a transient spike but a feature of the current setup. The clearest signal remains in…
Microsoft heads into the back half of May with a split personality: the short-covering story that defined the past two weeks has run out of momentum, while options traders are showing a fresh burst of defensive…
Microsoft enters mid-May in an unusual spot: the stock is essentially flat on the week, the quarter's results are already behind it, and yet options traders are showing the most defensive posture seen in months. The…
Microsoft enters the post-earnings week with options traders showing their most defensive posture in months — even as short sellers barely register a presence in the stock. The clearest tension this week is in the…
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