Options market record

DOW options flowcalls and puts bought each day.

On Oct 5, 2026, traders bought 4.55K DOW call contracts ($389.9K) and 4.08K put contracts ($465.8K). Calls were 1.3× and puts were 1.8× their respective 20-day medians. The underlying closed at $28.51 and 30-day implied volatility was 41.6%. On the call-buy top 10 on 6 of 473 trading days since Nov 11, 2024.

Each point is one trading day since Nov 11, 2024. Latest rankings

Daily contracts bought

Call contracts: min 1.27K, max 133.74K, latest 4.55K. Put contracts: min 457, max 48.79K, latest 4.08K.

30-day implied volatility

30-day IV: min 22.5%, max 80.6%, latest 41.6%.

Days in a top-10 list

Ranked by contracts bought today compared with the stock's own median over the previous 20 trading days.

Date	Call-buy rank	Put-buy rank	Call vs normal	Put vs normal
Sep 17, 2026	—	7	0.8×	8.7×
Sep 11, 2026	5	—	6.3×	1.8×
Sep 4, 2026	—	1	0.6×	23.1×
Jul 28, 2026	—	10	0.5×	4.7×
Jul 9, 2026	—	6	0.7×	5.1×
Jul 7, 2026	10	—	3.4×	0.9×
Apr 17, 2026	—	2	3.9×	7.2×
Apr 9, 2026	—	2	1.2×	9.1×
Apr 8, 2026	—	9	3.0×	5.1×
Mar 13, 2026	5	—	5.9×	0.9×
Feb 26, 2026	4	—	15.7×	0.8×
Feb 4, 2026	10	—	7.6×	1.1×
Dec 9, 2025	—	5	1.4×	4.8×
Dec 1, 2025	—	10	1.7×	3.9×
Nov 26, 2025	5	—	10.5×	0.9×
Jul 24, 2025	—	9	4.9×	7.6×
Jun 3, 2025	—	8	1.2×	4.8×
Jun 2, 2025	—	9	1.6×	4.1×
Apr 22, 2025	—	10	1.2×	3.5×
Apr 7, 2025	—	10	4.3×	5.1×

All 23 days

Date	Call-buy rank	Put-buy rank	Call vs normal	Put vs normal
Dec 12, 2024	—	5	0.4×	7.2×
Dec 5, 2024	—	9	1.3×	8.1×
Dec 2, 2024	—	5	0.6×	6.8×

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