Options market record

IBM options flowcalls and puts bought each day.

On Oct 5, 2026, traders bought 8.28K IBM call contracts ($4.2M) and 4.27K put contracts ($3.3M). Calls were 0.6× and puts were 0.6× their respective 20-day medians. The underlying closed at $221.54 and 30-day implied volatility was 45.0%. On the call-buy top 10 on 12 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 1.28K, max 142.54K, latest 8.28K. Put contracts: min 904, max 136.57K, latest 4.27K.

30-day implied volatility

30-day IV: min 19.6%, max 67.6%, latest 45.0%.

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
Jul 22, 2026	—	8	2.1×	3.6×
Jul 15, 2026	—	6	2.9×	6.8×
Jul 14, 2026	9	2	4.8×	17.1×
Jun 1, 2026	9	6	9.7×	7.5×
May 29, 2026	4	5	13.8×	6.5×
May 22, 2026	10	—	9.6×	5.0×
May 21, 2026	5	—	12.8×	4.9×
Apr 24, 2026	—	8	3.7×	5.4×
Apr 23, 2026	8	3	8.0×	10.2×
Apr 22, 2026	—	7	5.4×	6.1×
Feb 23, 2026	—	9	3.0×	5.2×
Feb 19, 2026	—	3	0.5×	17.7×
Feb 13, 2026	—	10	1.6×	4.7×
Feb 12, 2026	—	3	1.7×	30.1×
Jan 2, 2026	—	7	1.4×	4.5×
Nov 7, 2025	5	—	12.2×	1.6×
Oct 24, 2025	6	8	12.8×	9.2×
Oct 23, 2025	8	5	6.0×	7.3×
Oct 22, 2025	—	7	3.4×	5.4×
Jul 24, 2025	6	2	9.1×	22.4×

All 25 days

Date	Call-buy rank	Put-buy rank	Call vs normal	Put vs normal
Jul 23, 2025	—	9	5.5×	10.6×
Apr 24, 2025	5	5	7.0×	6.6×
Apr 23, 2025	—	8	5.2×	4.9×
Jan 30, 2025	3	4	9.5×	10.3×
Jan 29, 2025	—	4	3.5×	6.0×

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