Options market record

SPX options flowcalls and puts bought each day.

On Oct 6, 2026, traders bought 1.26M SPX call contracts ($4.5B) and 1.31M put contracts ($3.2B). Calls were 1.1× and puts were 1.0× their respective 20-day medians. The underlying closed at 7,819.83 and 30-day implied volatility was 15.0%.

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

Daily contracts bought

Call contracts: min 419.61K, max 2.01M, latest 1.26M. Put contracts: min 442.62K, max 2.48M, latest 1.31M.

30-day implied volatility

30-day IV: min 12.8%, max 52.3%, latest 15.0%.

Days in a top-10 list

SPX has not been on either top-10 list since Nov 11, 2024. Its latest 20 trading days are below.

Date	Calls bought	Puts bought	Call ratio vs 20-day median	Put ratio vs 20-day median	Price	30-day IV
Oct 6, 2026	1.26M	1.31M	1.1×	1.0×	7,819.83	15.0%
Oct 5, 2026	1.19M	1.21M	1.1×	1.0×	7,774.22	15.5%
Oct 2, 2026	1.17M	1.36M	1.1×	1.1×	7,723.49	15.3%
Oct 1, 2026	1.29M	1.41M	1.2×	1.1×	7,668.82	16.4%
Sep 30, 2026	1.13M	1.24M	1.0×	1.0×	7,653.56	16.3%
Sep 29, 2026	1.11M	1.25M	1.0×	1.0×	7,670.04	16.0%
Sep 28, 2026	1.17M	1.19M	1.1×	1.0×	7,684.5	16.1%
Sep 25, 2026	1.15M	1.23M	1.1×	1.0×	7,742.09	14.9%
Sep 24, 2026	1.28M	1.21M	1.2×	1.0×	7,703.83	15.7%
Sep 23, 2026	1.18M	1.37M	1.1×	1.1×	7,708.55	15.2%
Sep 22, 2026	1.03M	1.05M	1.0×	0.9×	7,764.27	14.2%
Sep 21, 2026	1.62M	1.32M	1.6×	1.1×	7,764.22	14.8%
Sep 18, 2026	1.08M	1.3M	1.1×	1.1×	7,646.04	14.8%
Sep 17, 2026	1.08M	1.26M	1.1×	1.1×	7,637.05	15.4%
Sep 16, 2026	985.1K	1.32M	1.0×	1.2×	7,553.33	17.7%
Sep 15, 2026	968.74K	1.2M	1.0×	1.1×	7,585.51	17.2%
Sep 14, 2026	1.09M	1.36M	1.1×	1.2×	7,620.25	17.1%
Sep 11, 2026	1.03M	1.29M	1.0×	1.2×	7,655.5	15.8%
Sep 10, 2026	1.09M	1.26M	1.1×	1.2×	7,592.3	17.8%
Sep 9, 2026	1.04M	1.15M	1.1×	1.1×	7,637.7	16.5%

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