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ARCASPY gained 4.1% on the week to close at $771.33 — its sharpest weekly advance in months — yet the options market is now more defensively positioned than it has been all year. The options signal is the standout this week, and it runs directly against the price action. The put/call ratio jumped to 1.976 on Tuesday, a full 3.4 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 1.72. That is…
SPY put-call ratio hits 2.30, a 4.08 standard deviations above the 20-day mean of 1.74—the most extreme options positioning since late June, signaling peak defensive hedging as equity markets rally.
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Read on ORTEX →Sign up for premiumSPY gained 4.1% on the week to close at $771.33 — its sharpest weekly advance in months — yet the options market is now more defensively positioned than it has been all year. The options signal is the standout this…
Snapshot as of 5 Aug 2026
SPY enters the final stretch of July with a clean split between two positioning signals: short sellers have largely finished their post-ceasefire exit, and options traders are now carrying the defensive flag on their…
Options traders turned sharply defensive on Tuesday. SPY put-call ratio jumped to 1.99 — a z-score of 2.14, the highest in weeks. That's happening even as the short sellers who drove the prior cycle have nearly…
SPY closes the week of July 20 in an awkward middle ground: short sellers who rebuilt positions on the Iran escalation are neither adding nor covering meaningfully, while options traders have nudged back toward…
SPY enters mid-July with a notable split: short sellers have pulled back from last week's Iran-driven rebuild, while options traders have swung sharply in the opposite direction — toward the most defensive posture in…
SPY closed Tuesday at $747.71, fractionally lower on the day but still holding near all-time highs — and the positioning picture has shifted meaningfully since last week's note. The dominant change this week is a…
SPY ended the week at $746.77 — a new all-time high — yet the options market is the most defensively positioned it has been in months, a divergence that defines the opening of the second half. The price action tells a…
SPY has given back nearly all of last week's gains, and options traders are now the most defensively positioned they have been in months — a sharper signal than anything the short interest or borrow data is currently…
SPY closed the week up 1.8%, but Tuesday's sharp reversal and a jarring one-session spike in options hedging demand suggest the post-Iran-deal calm has already worn thin. The options signal is the standout this week,…
SPY is trying to stabilise after last week's Iran-Israel shock, but options traders have not yet returned the favour — the put/call ratio jumped sharply on Tuesday even as the geopolitical headlines momentarily…
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