Options market record

SPY options flowcalls and puts bought each day.

On Oct 26, 2026, traders bought 2.57M SPY call contracts ($380.9M) and 2.7M put contracts ($380.1M). Calls were 0.9× and puts were 0.9× their respective 20-day medians. The underlying closed at $765.27 and 30-day implied volatility was 18.1%.

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

Daily contracts bought

Call contracts: min 1.13M, max 5.43M, latest 2.57M. Put contracts: min 1.09M, max 5.48M, latest 2.7M.

30-day implied volatility

30-day IV: min 12.9%, max 70.1%, latest 18.1%.

Days in a top-10 list

SPY 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 26, 2026	2.57M	2.7M	0.9×	0.9×	$765.27	18.1%
Oct 23, 2026	2.23M	3M	0.7×	0.9×	$761.06	19.4%
Oct 22, 2026	2.9M	3.71M	1.0×	1.2×	$763.80	19.0%
Oct 21, 2026	2.91M	2.88M	1.0×	0.9×	$773.00	16.8%
Oct 20, 2026	2.94M	3.07M	1.0×	1.0×	$771.45	17.3%
Oct 19, 2026	2.75M	3.34M	0.9×	1.1×	$766.99	18.4%
Oct 16, 2026	3.32M	4.93M	1.1×	1.6×	$763.24	20.7%
Oct 15, 2026	3.2M	3.43M	1.1×	1.1×	$771.18	16.2%
Oct 13, 2026	2.51M	2.74M	0.8×	0.9×	$777.93	15.1%
Oct 12, 2026	1.89M	2.13M	0.6×	0.7×	$778.05	15.0%
Oct 9, 2026	2.58M	2.59M	0.9×	0.8×	$779.03	14.7%
Oct 8, 2026	3.44M	3.44M	1.2×	1.1×	$774.30	15.3%
Oct 7, 2026	2.76M	2.94M	1.0×	1.0×	$777.05	15.0%
Oct 6, 2026	3.42M	3.11M	1.2×	1.0×	$779.79	14.9%
Oct 5, 2026	3.25M	3.07M	1.2×	1.0×	$774.91	15.4%
Oct 2, 2026	3.04M	3.82M	1.1×	1.3×	$769.50	15.2%
Oct 1, 2026	3.57M	3.9M	1.4×	1.3×	$764.02	16.3%
Sep 30, 2026	2.81M	2.96M	1.1×	1.0×	$762.97	16.3%
Sep 29, 2026	2.96M	2.83M	1.2×	0.9×	$764.85	15.9%
Sep 28, 2026	3.03M	3.48M	1.2×	1.2×	$765.86	16.0%

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