Options market record

XLV options flowcalls and puts bought each day.

On Oct 5, 2026, traders bought 2.57K XLV call contracts ($1.2M) and 2.39K put contracts ($735K). Calls were 1.0× and puts were 0.8× their respective 20-day medians. The underlying closed at $167.00 and 30-day implied volatility was 15.6%. On the call-buy top 10 on 9 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 302, max 36.73K, latest 2.57K. Put contracts: min 438, max 54.4K, latest 2.39K.

30-day implied volatility

30-day IV: min 5.9%, max 58.3%, latest 15.6%.

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 8, 2026	—	1	4.0×	9.9×
Aug 12, 2026	—	10	0.5×	4.8×
Jun 26, 2026	—	2	3.0×	21.0×
Jun 25, 2026	5	—	5.9×	2.8×
May 12, 2026	—	8	4.5×	4.5×
Apr 2, 2026	—	5	0.6×	4.5×
Mar 26, 2026	—	7	1.4×	3.9×
Mar 13, 2026	—	4	0.7×	6.6×
Jan 9, 2026	—	1	0.7×	25.2×
Jan 5, 2026	—	7	1.9×	4.5×
Dec 5, 2025	—	4	0.7×	9.5×
Nov 25, 2025	7	—	10.4×	1.1×
Nov 18, 2025	—	1	0.7×	22.9×
Nov 13, 2025	—	6	4.3×	8.8×
Nov 12, 2025	8	—	5.2×	2.1×
Oct 22, 2025	9	—	6.0×	2.7×
Oct 1, 2025	4	—	17.4×	3.9×
Sep 30, 2025	5	—	9.6×	2.4×
Sep 26, 2025	—	6	2.3×	5.9×
Sep 25, 2025	—	4	2.6×	12.0×

All 28 days

Date	Call-buy rank	Put-buy rank	Call vs normal	Put vs normal
Sep 24, 2025	—	3	0.6×	14.6×
Jun 17, 2025	9	—	6.5×	2.0×
May 16, 2025	8	—	7.9×	3.4×
May 15, 2025	—	4	5.0×	13.4×
May 14, 2025	—	3	4.2×	6.3×
May 9, 2025	—	10	4.2×	5.0×
Feb 4, 2025	8	—	6.3×	2.3×
Dec 2, 2024	—	9	1.6×	3.8×

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