Options market record

XLY options flowcalls and puts bought each day.

On Oct 5, 2026, traders bought 300 XLY call contracts ($86.8K) and 5.65K put contracts ($1.3M). Calls were — and puts were 4.9× their respective 20-day medians. The underlying closed at $110.25 and 30-day implied volatility was 10.2%. 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 101, max 21.6K, latest 300. Put contracts: min 100, max 112.52K, latest 5.65K.

30-day implied volatility

30-day IV: min 9.2%, max 66.8%, latest 10.2%.

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 5, 2026	—	6	—	4.9×
Sep 28, 2026	—	6	—	5.6×
Sep 23, 2026	—	5	—	6.7×
Sep 15, 2026	—	4	—	4.6×
Sep 14, 2026	—	2	—	10.6×
Sep 10, 2026	—	1	—	36.4×
Jul 23, 2026	3	3	12.7×	16.4×
Jul 16, 2026	—	1	0.7×	41.9×
Jul 10, 2026	—	2	1.5×	12.1×
Jul 9, 2026	—	1	0.6×	8.5×
Jul 2, 2026	—	6	3.2×	6.6×
Jun 22, 2026	—	5	2.3×	6.1×
Apr 27, 2026	9	—	5.6×	2.0×
Apr 17, 2026	—	8	8.8×	5.0×
Apr 14, 2026	—	9	—	4.1×
Apr 8, 2026	—	2	—	21.1×
Mar 23, 2026	—	6	—	4.9×
Mar 19, 2026	—	4	—	20.6×
Mar 16, 2026	—	1	—	6.0×
Mar 12, 2026	—	3	—	12.7×

All 28 days

Date	Call-buy rank	Put-buy rank	Call vs normal	Put vs normal
Feb 23, 2026	—	8	—	6.4×
Feb 6, 2026	—	7	—	5.2×
Jan 13, 2026	—	9	0.4×	5.2×
Dec 23, 2025	5	—	10.3×	—
Nov 20, 2025	—	7	0.2×	8.8×
Sep 16, 2025	—	10	1.6×	3.4×
Jul 7, 2025	—	9	0.6×	2.8×
Jul 3, 2025	—	10	0.9×	2.8×

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