IBM enters the quantum computing wave; traders are buying call options like crazy.

American traders are currently quite passionate about two types of investment directions: cutting-edge technology and the theme of "strong comeback of traditional American companies". The US Department of Commerce announced on Thursday that it will provide a total of $2 billion in funding to 9 quantum computing companies, with IBM receiving $1 billion, becoming the largest beneficiary of this government funding. IBM later confirmed that the company will cooperate with the US government to build the first "dedicated quantum chip foundry" in the United States. At the same time, traders flocked to buy options on IBM. According to data from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, options traders heavily entered this stock, trading nearly 200,000 contracts, 15 times the average daily trading volume of the past 30 days. The volume of call options traded is nearly 8:1 higher than that of put options. Among them, over 42,000 call options were bought, 27,500 were sold, and the number of put options bought was less than 4,000.