Options market record

XLK options flowcalls and puts bought each day.

On Oct 5, 2026, traders bought 4.19K XLK call contracts ($5.5M) and 6.75K put contracts ($2.2M). Calls were 0.7× and puts were 0.7× their respective 20-day medians. The underlying closed at $201.11 and 30-day implied volatility was 26.7%. On the call-buy top 10 on 3 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 678, max 23.65K, latest 4.19K. Put contracts: min 466, max 70.76K, latest 6.75K.

30-day implied volatility

30-day IV: min 15.9%, max 131.7%, latest 26.7%.

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
Oct 2, 2026	—	2	1.3×	8.1×
Sep 21, 2026	—	4	3.0×	5.9×
Sep 8, 2026	—	10	1.2×	3.6×
Aug 4, 2026	—	3	6.4×	7.8×
Jun 22, 2026	9	—	4.4×	0.4×
Jun 1, 2026	—	4	1.7×	12.5×
May 29, 2026	—	9	1.0×	5.5×
May 28, 2026	—	8	1.0×	7.1×
Apr 13, 2026	—	10	1.5×	2.9×
Jan 23, 2026	—	10	1.1×	4.9×
Oct 28, 2025	—	1	1.2×	7.5×
Oct 15, 2025	—	6	1.1×	5.5×
Oct 14, 2025	—	6	1.7×	4.6×
Jul 28, 2025	10	—	4.5×	1.4×
Jul 3, 2025	—	5	1.1×	4.2×
Dec 31, 2024	7	—	4.0×	0.3×
Dec 24, 2024	—	7	0.7×	1.9×

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