Research

Weekly Options Monitor

Positions confirmed against settlement, not inferred from prints. Published each Saturday for the week ended Friday.

  1. The book bought tail protection and gold calls while three desks called for higher

    SPY confirmed 1,066,518 put opens against 165,407 call opens on the settled book, a put share of 0.68 on 983,531 confirmed opens in the SPX family. Nomura, JP Morgan and Bank of America each published bullish SPX views into a week where the index options complex built downside and gold added 566,922 call opens.