Vanguard World Fund - Vanguard Materials ETF
ARCAThe most striking development in VAW this week is a dramatic rotation in options positioning — call buyers have taken over from a market that spent most of the past two months leaning defensive. Options traders have turned unusually bullish on the Vanguard Materials ETF. The put/call ratio dropped to 0.23, roughly half its 20-day average of 0.42 and nearly 1.4 standard deviations…
VAW short interest surges 42% in one week to 0.25% of float, though remains historically low.
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Snapshot as of 1 Jul 2026
The most striking development in VAW this week is a dramatic rotation in options positioning — call buyers have taken over from a market that spent most of the past two months leaning defensive. Options traders have…
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