ICE options flow: unusual options activity in Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

Updated 28 September 2026, 09:54 ET

Over the last week the tape recorded 11 unusual options prints in Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), $1.2M of tracked premium, leaning firmly bullish. Bullish premium was $903K against $259K bearish; $1.1M went into calls and $111K into puts, a put call ratio of 0.11. The largest print was $398K of ICE 21 Jan 2028 $80 calls on 25 September 2026, swept at ask. The last session with prints, 25 September 2026, added 4 prints and $701K of premium. ICE closed at $154.31 on 25 September 2026, down 1.7%.

This week's unusual flow

Prints from 21 September 2026 to 25 September 2026, 4 sessions. Delayed tier: every print is shown twenty minutes after it executed, and the page is rebuilt after each session.

Net premium is bullish minus bearish premium. The put call ratio is put premium divided by call premium, weighted by money rather than by contract count. Sweeps is the share of prints executed across several exchanges at once. Read the guide: Reading the Pulse.

Largest prints of the week

Size above open interest means the trade opened a position larger than everything that existed in the contract the night before. Above ask and below bid are the most aggressive executions. Read the guide: Size versus open interest.

Where the money is aimed

The most premium, $734K, is aimed at the 21 Jan 2028 expiry; the nearest expiry with unusual prints is 16 Oct 2026.

A print in a contract expiring this week is a view about the next few days, often about a known event; a print months out is a different kind of statement. Read the guide: 0DTE options flow.

The last session, 25 September 2026

Every print in ICE with its full detail, the live tape, one tap filters and saved screeners: open ICE in Options Sentiment Screener.

Price

The live quote and the price chart sit beside the ticker's flow in the app: open ICE in Options Sentiment Screener.

Analysts

The most recent analyst targets on file, from 7 firms, have a median of $182, 17.9% above the last close.

Calls bought at a strike above the average target are a bet that the analysts are too cautious; puts far below the price in a name they like are protection or a strong disagreement. Read the guide: Reading one ticker's flow.

About Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

Exchange

NYSE

Sector

Financials

Industry

Trading

Headquarters

Atlanta, Georgia

Website

ice.com

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. operates through three segments: Exchanges, Fixed Income and Data Services, and Mortgage Technology. The company operates marketplaces for listing, trading, and clearing an array of derivatives contracts and financial securities. It also provides fixed income data and analytic, fixed income execution, CDS clearing, and other multi-asset class data and network services.

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Learn

• What unusual options activity means
• Reading one ticker's flow
• Sweeps, blocks and where a trade printed
• Size versus open interest
• Bullish or bearish, how a print's sentiment is inferred
• The conviction score and whale prints