Cadence Design Systems Inc
Cadence Design Systems Inc (CDNS) Options Open Interest
CDNS options open interest is 53,957 contracts. The 2-week average daily volume is 3,351 contracts across the chain.
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Monitoring CDNS open interest helps you see where real money is positioned on Cadence Design Systems Inc's options and which strikes are attracting the most commitment from traders. Cadence Design Systems Inc's open interest reflects the total number of outstanding contracts that have not been closed or exercised, making it a powerful gauge of liquidity, conviction, and potential support and resistance zones. Use our scanner to monitor CDNS options open interest in real time and find the strikes that matter.
Open interest is distinct from volume: volume counts how many contracts are traded in a session, while open interest counts how many remain open at the end of the day. Rising CDNS options open interest alongside rising volume suggests new positions are being built, while falling open interest signals positions are being closed. Heavy open interest at specific strikes often acts as a magnet near expiration and can hint at where dealers and large traders expect Cadence Design Systems Inc to settle.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. provides software, hardware, services, and reusable integrated circuit (IC) design blocks worldwide. The company offers functional verification services, including emulation and prototyping hardware. Its functional verification offering consists of JasperGold, a formal verification platform; Xcelium, a parallel logic simulation platform; Palladium, an enterprise emulation platform; and Protium, a prototyping platform for chip verification. The company also provides digital IC design and sign off products, including Genus logic synthesis and Joules RTL power solutions, as well as Modus software solution to reduce systems-on-chip design-for-test time; physical implementation tools, such as place and route, optimization, and multiple patterning preparation; and signoff products to signoff the design as ready for silicon manufacturing.
In addition, it offers custom IC design and simulation products to create schematic and physical representations of circuits down to the transistor level for analog, mixed-signal, custom digital, memory, and radio frequency designs; and system design and analysis products to develop printed circuit boards and IC packages, as well as to analyze electromagnetic, electro-thermal, and other multi-physics effects. Further, the company provides intellectual property (IP) products comprising pre-verified and customizable functional blocks to integrate into customer's ICs; and verification IP and memory models to emulate and model the expected behavior and interaction of standard industry system interface protocols. Additionally, it offers services related to methodology, education, and hosted design solutions, as well as technical support and maintenance services. The company serves 5G communications, aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial and healthcare, mobile, consumer, and hyperscale computing markets. Cadence Design Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Pin risk into expiration, dealer positioning, liquidity checks for large orders — all of it starts with knowing where CDNS open interest is concentrated. Our scanner maps Cadence Design Systems Inc's open interest across every strike and expiry, flags unusual buildups, and lets you drill into the contracts that institutional money is actually holding. Trade Cadence Design Systems Inc's options open interest as the signal it is, not as an afterthought.
| 430.00 | — | 2.15 | 2.15 | 138% | +0.0832 | 237 |
| 390.00 | — | 0.95 | 0.95 | 83% | +0.0626 | 100 |
| 435.00 | — | 2.15 | 2.15 | 142% | +0.0812 | 67 |
| 300.00 | 25.00 | 27.50 | 26.25 | 9% | +1.0000 | 52 |
| 297.50 | 27.30 | 30.40 | 28.85 | 7% | +1.0000 | 32 |
| 270.00 | — | 1.60 | 1.60 | 102% | -0.0749 | 152 |
| 305.00 | — | 2.20 | 2.20 | 54% | -0.1676 | 80 |
| 260.00 | — | 2.15 | 2.15 | 127% | -0.0791 | 64 |
| 310.00 | 1.45 | 3.70 | 2.58 | 48% | -0.2069 | 57 |
| 275.00 | — | 0.65 | 0.65 | 77% | -0.0448 | 45 |
As of September 25, 2026
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