Options market record

XLP options flowcalls and puts bought each day.

On Oct 5, 2026, traders bought 2.47K XLP call contracts ($242.4K) and 3.08K put contracts ($482.6K). Calls were 0.6× and puts were 0.7× their respective 20-day medians. The underlying closed at $81.01 and 30-day implied volatility was 12.0%. On the call-buy top 10 on 1 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 291, max 22.6K, latest 2.47K. Put contracts: min 137, max 339.86K, latest 3.08K.

30-day implied volatility

30-day IV: min 2.6%, max 37.6%, latest 12.0%.

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
Aug 5, 2026	—	1	0.4×	28.2×
Jul 30, 2026	—	7	2.0×	5.6×
Jul 28, 2026	—	2	2.2×	10.6×
Jun 9, 2026	—	1	1.2×	12.6×
May 19, 2026	—	5	3.0×	5.5×
Apr 16, 2026	—	2	0.4×	8.5×
Apr 7, 2026	—	8	1.1×	5.4×
Feb 6, 2026	—	8	2.8×	4.8×
Feb 5, 2026	—	3	4.0×	30.6×
Feb 4, 2026	—	3	5.8×	12.1×
Jan 20, 2026	—	7	3.7×	6.1×
Dec 22, 2025	—	1	0.5×	13.0×
Dec 15, 2025	—	1	0.7×	32.3×
Nov 14, 2025	—	6	0.8×	7.2×
Oct 29, 2025	—	7	1.3×	5.5×
Oct 27, 2025	—	3	1.2×	8.4×
Oct 10, 2025	7	—	8.3×	0.7×
Oct 6, 2025	—	2	0.8×	12.9×
Sep 4, 2025	—	5	1.0×	11.3×
Aug 20, 2025	—	4	5.3×	7.3×

All 32 days

Date	Call-buy rank	Put-buy rank	Call vs normal	Put vs normal
Aug 12, 2025	—	9	—	4.5×
Aug 11, 2025	—	1	—	121.9×
Jul 18, 2025	—	2	0.9×	36.0×
Jul 15, 2025	—	1	0.6×	12.5×
Jul 10, 2025	—	5	0.7×	9.4×
Jul 9, 2025	—	1	1.3×	16.1×
Apr 21, 2025	—	7	0.5×	3.4×
Apr 11, 2025	—	2	1.1×	6.0×
Feb 27, 2025	—	10	1.7×	6.7×
Feb 26, 2025	—	2	6.7×	11.3×
Feb 25, 2025	—	8	4.8×	10.1×
Jan 8, 2025	—	6	1.2×	6.5×

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