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SMH

$573.00 unadjusted close, 2026-09-18
as of 2026-09-18
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Implied volatility · 30-day constant maturity

level
31.3%
IV percentile
10.6%
own all (<3y) · n=241
IV rank
14.7%
own all (<1y) · n=241
range
26.5% – 59.1%
own all (<1y) · n=241
low 26.5%241 sessions, all (<1y) · today 31.3%high 59.1%

Term structure · constant maturity

30 consecutive sessions in contango (the normal upward slope).

25 calendar days out: every tenor of 5d or longer spans it Wed 09-23 09:45 ET · US Flash Manufacturing PMI (September) Wed 09-23 09:45 ET · US Flash Services PMI (September)46 calendar days out: every tenor of 6d or longer spans it Thu 09-24 08:00 ET · Economic Club of Washington, DC event with Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin Thu 09-24 08:30 ET · Weekly Jobless Claims (September) Thu 09-24 10:00 ET · New Home Sales (August) Thu 09-24 11:00 ET · Kansas City Fed Survey (September)27 calendar days out: every tenor of 7d or longer spans it Fri 09-25 08:30 ET · Durable Goods (August) Fri 09-25 10:00 ET · U. Michigan Final Consumer Survey (September)1d5d7d14d30d60d90d180d365d41.3%17.0%
2026-09-182026-08-19 (21 sessions earlier)◆ scheduled release, at the first tenor spanning ittenors in calendar days, log scale
Scheduled after the 2026-09-18 close, from the 2026-09-18 calendar snapshot (forecasts as they stood then). Each is marked with the shortest tenor, in calendar days, that spans it:
  • Wed 09-23 09:45 · 5d US Flash Manufacturing PMI (September) · prev 53.2
  • Wed 09-23 09:45 · 5d US Flash Services PMI (September) · prev 56.8
  • Thu 09-24 08:00 · 6d Economic Club of Washington, DC event with Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin
  • Thu 09-24 08:30 · 6d Weekly Jobless Claims (September)
  • Thu 09-24 10:00 · 6d New Home Sales (August) · prev 607000
  • Thu 09-24 11:00 · 6d Kansas City Fed Survey (September) · prev 17
  • Fri 09-25 08:30 · 7d Durable Goods (August) · prev 1.1%
  • Fri 09-25 10:00 · 7d U. Michigan Final Consumer Survey (September) · prev 51.7

Earnings: no earnings (ETF): the vendor serves no reports for the funds whose holdings are collected here, and this symbol is one of them.

90-day IV
34.6%
own all (<3y) 24.5% · n=241
slope, 30d − 90d
-3.3 pts
own all (<3y) 6.2% · n=241
variance risk premium, 30d
+4.1 pts
own all (<3y) 63.8% · n=236

Skew · risk reversal

25-delta
+0.9 pts
own all (<3y) 15.7% · n=35
10-delta
+3.5 pts
own all (<3y) 15.7% · n=35

Skew has been collected since 2026-07-30 only: the vendor serves no earlier history, so each percentile here is taken over all of it - the few weeks of readings there are, which the n beside it counts.

Smile by expiry: the 8 expiries within 120 DTE carrying the most open interest · book as of 2026-09-17

1d2026-09-18 · short
2026-09-18: 5 put and 5 call strikes within ±2.3%, IV 24% to 34%strike 567.5: IV 24.4%, beyond the shared scale43%27%2.3%book spot+2.3%
8d2026-09-25
2026-09-25: 15 put and 14 call strikes within ±6.5%, IV 28% to 34%43%27%6.5%book spot+6.5%
15d2026-10-02
2026-10-02: 19 put and 20 call strikes within ±8.8%, IV 29% to 37%43%27%8.8%book spot+8.8%
22d2026-10-09
2026-10-09: 21 put and 19 call strikes within ±11%, IV 30% to 37%43%27%11%book spot+11%
29d2026-10-16
2026-10-16: 14 put and 13 call strikes within ±12%, IV 30% to 37%43%27%12%book spot+12%
64d2026-11-20
2026-11-20: 21 put and 20 call strikes within ±18%, IV 33% to 41%43%27%18%book spot+18%
92d2026-12-18
2026-12-18: 21 put and 18 call strikes within ±22%, IV 33% to 41%43%27%22%book spot+22%
120d2027-01-15
2027-01-15: 23 put and 21 call strikes within ±25%, IV 33% to 42%43%27%25%book spot+25%
IV against strike, out-of-the-money side. Each window widens with √DTE, to ±25% at the longest expiry, so every panel shows a comparable slice of its smile; all share one IV scale (27%43%), set by the expiries past 7 DTE. 1 short-dated point beyond it is pinned to the edge as an open circle.

Expiry window · 3565 DTE

Next earnings: no earnings (ETF): the vendor serves no reports for the funds whose holdings are collected here, and this symbol is one of them.

expiryDTE28-DTE exitthesisearningsATM IV · 09-17expected move
2026-10-23 Friweekly352026-09-257dno earnings (ETF)32.1% p 560
2026-10-30 Friweekly422026-10-0214dno earnings (ETF)33.7% p 560
2026-11-20 Fri632026-10-2335dno earnings (ETF)35.0% p 560

DTE counts calendar days from 2026-09-18, the page's date and the earliest an entry could be made - not from the 2026-09-17 book the expiries and IVs come from, which would overstate it by 1 day; an expiry first listed after 2026-09-17 is not in the book and not here. A premarket report moves its own session and a postmarket one the next; one with no stated time is placed at the earlier of the two - or at the later, once the earlier is already in the 2026-09-18 close - so an expiry can be called spanning when it might not be, never the reverse. "spans +N": the expiry settles N calendar days after that session, and the line under it says whether the 28-DTE exit comes before it ("inside the exit": that date is already behind 2026-09-18, so it protects nothing); "clear N": it settles N days before it. Thesis = DTE − 28 (the hard exit is 21), cut to the last session before a report that comes first. Every expiry in the band is listed, and one that is not a third Friday is marked weekly — §1 of the trading rules admits no weeklies and no 0DTE, so those rows are context, not candidates; the mark is the calendar test on the date alone, and a monthly pulled back to a Thursday by a holiday carries it too. ATM IV is the vendor's at the 2026-09-17 close, on the out-of-the-money side of the listed strike nearest book spot: a display selection, not a statistic, read at that one strike, so "no IV at X" is about X and not about its neighbours. The expected move is the vendor's, for the report the expiry spans. Every row links to that expiry on the strike axis below.

Chain · one strike axis

Book as of 2026-09-17: 1 session behind 2026-09-18: no SMH chain statistics (net_gex) dated after 2026-09-17 are knowable as of 2026-09-18, and no ticker has newer ones. The strikes drawn below are 2026-09-17's rows as stored now; the levels and statistics are the readings dated 2026-09-17, computed from those rows when the readings were derived, and a fetch of 2026-09-17 after that can revise rows. Open interest is what entered 2026-09-17 (OCC's settlement of 2026-09-16), valued at the 2026-09-17 close.

net GEX · carried book
-$19.8m per 1%
own all (<3y) 83.6% · n=64
gamma flip
undetermined - book spot is near a flip
flip distance
undetermined - book spot is near a flip
last reading +1.00 ATR on 2026-09-16
0DTE share of volume
not listed daily

book spot $560.61 (unadjusted close, 2026-09-17) · call wall $560.00 (-0.11% from book spot) · put wall $550.00 (-1.89% from book spot) · max pain $560.00 (-0.11% from book spot, 2026-10-16 monthly)

Each level is stored as a distance from the book's own spot, so each is drawn at $560.61 × (1 + that distance) - the 2026-09-17 unadjusted close, the price the chain was taken at. That is why two prices appear on this page. SMH headlines $573.00, its newest unadjusted close, on 2026-09-18; the book was taken at $560.61 on 2026-09-17, because the book trails the page by the one session counted above. Both are closes, both are dated, and neither is adjusted. Recomputing a wall on the newer close would put it at a level this book never had, so none of these is: they are the 2026-09-17 book's levels, on the 2026-09-17 close.

Dashed: 7 DTE or less, where the vendor's gamma is noisy. "mp": the monthly max pain describes.

Tradability of the 2026-10-01 expiry: 13 calendar days from 2026-09-18 (14 from the book date), outside the owner's 35–65 DTE entry window. Spreads are the NBBO stored with the 2026-09-17 chain snapshot - not a live quote, and not DESIGN J's quote at a trade (per-trade quotes are not collected) - as a percent of mid; a zero or missing bid, or a crossed quote, is drawn as × for no two-sided quote. The owner's floors are marked and filter nothing: spread 10% of mid, OI 500 (no strike drawn reaches 500 on either side, before or after 2026-09-16's trading, so that line is off the panel), and the strike nearest 0.20 delta on each side - call 590 (Δ 0.19), put 530 (Δ -0.19).

call put OI carried through 2026-09-16 · opened by 2026-09-16's trading · closed by it / net GEX long / short gamma book spot call wall put wall max pain gamma flipfloors, marked not filtered: spread 10% of mid · OI 500 · strike nearest 0.20 delta, beside the spread panel · no two-sided quote · spread past 25%
OI changes are 2026-09-16's trading; volume is 2026-09-17's.◀ put OIcall OI ▶entering 2026-09-17◀ put volcall vol ▶traded 2026-09-17◀ putcall ▶spread, % of mid− net GEX+$ per 1% move625620615610605600595590585580575570565560555550545540535530525520515510505500495490485480put strike nearest 0.20 delta: 530call strike nearest 0.20 delta: 59010115415425%10%10%25%-$1+$1book spot 560.61call wall 560put wall 550strike 625 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.02 × 1.60, spread 195.1% of mid · Δ 0.05 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 62.40 × 66.75, spread 6.7% of mid · Δ -0.98 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 620 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.02 × 1.81, spread 195.6% of mid · Δ 0.06 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 57.55 × 61.75, spread 7.0% of mid · Δ -0.98 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 615 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.02 × 2.07, spread 196.2% of mid · Δ 0.07 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 1 (at ask 0, at bid 1) · NBBO 52.50 × 56.40, spread 7.2% of mid · Δ -0.97 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 610 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 5 (at ask 5, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.06 × 1.90, spread 187.8% of mid · Δ 0.08 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 47.80 × 52.05, spread 8.5% of mid · Δ -0.96 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 605 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.28 × 2.86, spread 164.3% of mid · Δ 0.09 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 43.10 × 47.35, spread 9.4% of mid · Δ -0.93 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 600 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.56 × 2.74, spread 132.1% of mid · Δ 0.12 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 38.50 × 42.90, spread 10.8% of mid · Δ -0.90 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 595 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 4 (at ask 3, at bid 1) · NBBO 1.15 × 3.90, spread 108.9% of mid · Δ 0.15 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 34.55 × 37.30, spread 7.7% of mid · Δ -0.87 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 590 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 5 (at ask 2, at bid 3, multi-leg 3) · NBBO 2.04 × 4.85, spread 81.6% of mid · Δ 0.19 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 30.45 × 33.15, spread 8.5% of mid · Δ -0.83 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 585 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 2 (at ask 2, at bid 0) · NBBO 3.20 × 5.45, spread 52.0% of mid · Δ 0.24 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 26.80 × 29.20, spread 8.6% of mid · Δ -0.78 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 580 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 4.55 × 7.30, spread 46.4% of mid · Δ 0.29 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 22.85 × 25.40, spread 10.6% of mid · Δ -0.72 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 575 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 4 (at ask 2, at bid 2, multi-leg 4) · NBBO 6.60 × 8.05, spread 19.8% of mid · Δ 0.35 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 19.50 × 21.90, spread 11.6% of mid · Δ -0.67 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 570 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 154 (at ask 35, at bid 118, multi-leg 151) · NBBO 7.70 × 9.75, spread 23.5% of mid · Δ 0.40 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 16.35 × 18.90, spread 14.5% of mid · Δ -0.60 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 565 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 4 (at ask 1, at bid 3, multi-leg 1) · NBBO 9.95 × 13.25, spread 28.4% of mid · Δ 0.46 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 14.05 × 16.00, spread 13.0% of mid · Δ -0.54 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 560 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 6 (at ask 2, at bid 4, multi-leg 2) · NBBO 13.05 × 14.80, spread 12.6% of mid · Δ 0.52 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 33 (at ask 2, at bid 31, multi-leg 33) · NBBO 10.90 × 13.45, spread 20.9% of mid · Δ -0.48 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 555 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 2 (at ask 2, at bid 0) · NBBO 16.00 × 18.25, spread 13.1% of mid · Δ 0.58 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 3 (at ask 3, at bid 0, multi-leg 3) · NBBO 9.60 × 11.30, spread 16.3% of mid · Δ -0.42 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 550 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 19.25 × 21.10, spread 9.2% of mid · Δ 0.63 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 31 (at ask 29, at bid 2, multi-leg 31) · NBBO 6.85 × 10.15, spread 38.8% of mid · Δ -0.36 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 545 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 22.70 × 24.50, spread 7.6% of mid · Δ 0.68 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 6.35 × 8.25, spread 26.0% of mid · Δ -0.31 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 540 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 25.55 × 28.90, spread 12.3% of mid · Δ 0.72 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 5.00 × 6.85, spread 31.2% of mid · Δ -0.26 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 535 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 30.05 × 32.45, spread 7.7% of mid · Δ 0.76 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 33 (at ask 3, at bid 30, multi-leg 33) · NBBO 4.10 × 5.25, spread 24.6% of mid · Δ -0.22 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 530 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 2 (at ask 1, at bid 1) · NBBO 34.25 × 36.80, spread 7.2% of mid · Δ 0.80 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 3.40 × 5.25, spread 42.8% of mid · Δ -0.19 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 525 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 37.75 × 41.10, spread 8.5% of mid · Δ 0.83 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 2 (at ask 1, at bid 1) · NBBO 2.10 × 4.05, spread 63.4% of mid · Δ -0.16 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 520 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 41.50 × 45.65, spread 9.5% of mid · Δ 0.85 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 1 (at ask 1, at bid 0) · NBBO 1.76 × 3.60, spread 68.7% of mid · Δ -0.12 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 515 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 46.00 × 50.15, spread 8.6% of mid · Δ 0.87 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 7 (at ask 7, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.69 × 2.40, spread 110.7% of mid · Δ -0.09 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 510 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 50.50 × 54.55, spread 7.7% of mid · Δ 0.89 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 31 (at ask 31, at bid 0, multi-leg 30) · NBBO 1.12 × 2.07, spread 59.6% of mid · Δ -0.08 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 505 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 55.00 × 59.35, spread 7.6% of mid · Δ 0.91 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 3 (at ask 1, at bid 2, multi-leg 2) · NBBO 0.40 × 1.72, spread 124.5% of mid · Δ -0.07 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 500 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 60.00 × 63.95, spread 6.4% of mid · Δ 0.92 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.76 × 1.92, spread 86.6% of mid · Δ -0.06 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 495 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 64.55 × 68.75, spread 6.3% of mid · Δ 0.93 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.01 × 1.86, spread 197.9% of mid · Δ -0.05 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 490 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 69.50 × 73.65, spread 5.8% of mid · Δ 0.94 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.01 × 1.69, spread 197.6% of mid · Δ -0.05 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 485 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 74.50 × 78.60, spread 5.4% of mid · Δ 0.95 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.01 × 1.55, spread 197.4% of mid · Δ -0.04 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 480 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 79.50 × 83.40, spread 4.8% of mid · Δ 0.95 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.01 × 1.44, spread 197.2% of mid · Δ -0.03 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)

2026-10-01 expiry, 30 strikes - every one listed. One row per listed strike: rows are evenly spaced, prices are not. Net GEX is this expiry's alone; the walls, flip and headline sum every carried expiry. Volume is 2026-09-17's own - whether it opened positions shows in the 2026-09-18 book's change.

max pain $560.00 belongs to the 2026-10-16 monthly (29 days from 2026-09-17, as max_pain_expiry_dte stores it: the nearest monthly at least 7 days out), not to this expiry.

γ flip: undetermined - book spot is near a flip.

Table view · 30 strikes
putsstrikecallsGEX, $ per 1%
ΔOIOImulti-legsweep@bid@askvolΔspraskbidbidasksprΔvol@ask@bidsweepmulti-legOIΔOIputcallnet
000000-0.986.7%66.7562.406250.021.60195.1%0.05000000
000000-0.987.0%61.7557.556200.021.81195.6%0.06000000
000101-0.977.2%56.4052.506150.022.07196.2%0.07000000
000000-0.968.5%52.0547.806100.061.90187.8%0.08550000
000000-0.939.4%47.3543.106050.282.86164.3%0.09000000
000000-0.9010.8%42.9038.506000.562.74132.1%0.12000000
000000-0.877.7%37.3034.555951.153.90108.9%0.15431000
000000-0.838.5%33.1530.455902.044.8581.6%0.19523030
000000-0.788.6%29.2026.805853.205.4552.0%0.24220000
000000-0.7210.6%25.4022.855804.557.3046.4%0.29000000
000000-0.6711.6%21.9019.505756.608.0519.8%0.35422040
000000-0.6014.5%18.9016.355707.709.7523.5%0.401543511801510
000000-0.5413.0%16.0014.055659.9513.2528.4%0.46413010
033031233-0.4820.9%13.4510.9056013.0514.8012.6%0.52624020
030033-0.4216.3%11.309.6055516.0018.2513.1%0.58220000
031022931-0.3638.8%10.156.8555019.2521.109.2%0.63000000
000000-0.3126.0%8.256.3554522.7024.507.6%0.68000000
000000-0.2631.2%6.855.0054025.5528.9012.3%0.72000000
033030333-0.2224.6%5.254.1053530.0532.457.7%0.76000000
000000-0.1942.8%5.253.4053034.2536.807.2%0.80211000
000112-0.1663.4%4.052.1052537.7541.108.5%0.83000000
000011-0.1268.7%3.601.7652041.5045.659.5%0.85000000
000077-0.09110.7%2.400.6951546.0050.158.6%0.87000000
030003131-0.0859.6%2.071.1251050.5054.557.7%0.89000000
020213-0.07124.5%1.720.4050555.0059.357.6%0.91000000
000000-0.0686.6%1.920.7650060.0063.956.4%0.92000000
000000-0.05197.9%1.860.0149564.5568.756.3%0.93000000
000000-0.05197.6%1.690.0149069.5073.655.8%0.94000000
000000-0.04197.4%1.550.0148574.5078.605.4%0.95000000
000000-0.03197.2%1.440.0148079.5083.404.8%0.95000000