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XLE

$64.31 unadjusted close, 2026-09-18
as of 2026-09-18
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Implied volatility · 30-day constant maturity

level
25.5%
IV percentile
55.2%
own all (<3y) · n=241
IV rank
48.2%
own all (<1y) · n=241
range
17.6% – 34.0%
own all (<1y) · n=241
low 17.6%241 sessions, all (<1y) · today 25.5%high 34.0%

Term structure · constant maturity

2 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)1d5d7d14d30d60d90d180d365d26.8%14.9%
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
26.8%
own all (<3y) 77.4% · n=241
slope, 30d − 90d
-1.3 pts
own all (<3y) 10.0% · n=241
variance risk premium, 30d
+5.4 pts
own all (<3y) 80.7% · n=236

Skew · risk reversal

25-delta
-0.3 pts
own all (<3y) 87.1% · n=35
10-delta
+1.5 pts
own all (<3y) 87.1% · 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: 2 put and 2 call strikes within ±2.3%, IV 23% to 28%31%20%2.3%book spot+2.3%
8d2026-09-25
2026-09-25: 8 put and 6 call strikes within ±6.5%, IV 21% to 31%31%20%6.5%book spot+6.5%
13d2026-09-30
2026-09-30: 5 put and 5 call strikes within ±8.2%, IV 22% to 30%31%20%8.2%book spot+8.2%
29d2026-10-16
2026-10-16: 8 put and 8 call strikes within ±12%, IV 22% to 30%31%20%12%book spot+12%
64d2026-11-20
2026-11-20: 12 put and 12 call strikes within ±18%, IV 25% to 31%31%20%18%book spot+18%
92d2026-12-18
2026-12-18: 10 put and 7 call strikes within ±22%, IV 25% to 30%31%20%22%book spot+22%
105d2026-12-31
2026-12-31: 3 put and 3 call strikes within ±23%, IV 24% to 30%31%20%23%book spot+23%
120d2027-01-15
2027-01-15: 6 put and 5 call strikes within ±25%, IV 25% to 30%31%20%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 (20%31%), set by the expiries past 7 DTE.

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)24.0% c 64.5
2026-10-30 Friweekly422026-10-0214dno earnings (ETF)24.7% c 64.5
2026-11-20 Fri632026-10-2335dno earnings (ETF)28.4% p 64

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 XLE 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
+$23.7m per 1%
own all (<3y) 38.3% · n=64
gamma flip
$64.06
flip within ±25% of book spot
flip distance
-0.32 ATR
own all (<3y) 73.4% · n=62
0DTE share of volume
not listed daily

book spot $64.48 (unadjusted close, 2026-09-17) · call wall $65.00 (+0.81% from book spot) · put wall $64.00 (-0.74% from book spot) · max pain $63.00 (-2.30% 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 $64.48 × (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. XLE headlines $64.31, its newest unadjusted close, on 2026-09-18; the book was taken at $64.48 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 2026-12-18 expiry: 91 calendar days from 2026-09-18 (92 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, and the strike nearest 0.20 delta on each side - call 72.5 (Δ 0.23), put 57.5 (Δ -0.18).

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% move807572.571706967.566656462.561605957.556555452.5515049put strike nearest 0.20 delta: 57.5call strike nearest 0.20 delta: 72.560k060k63863825%10%10%25%-$6.5m+$6.5mcall wall 65book spot 64.48γ flip 64.06put wall 64strike 80 calls: OI 5,238 (-58) · vol 4 (at ask 0, at bid 4, multi-leg 1) · NBBO 0.12 × 0.42, spread 111.1% of mid · Δ 0.09 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 15.55 × 17.05, spread 9.2% of mid · Δ -0.87 net GEX +$355k per 1% (calls +$355k, puts +$0)strike 75 calls: OI 11,396 (+75) · vol 43 (at ask 13, at bid 0, sweep 2, multi-leg 30) · NBBO 0.54 × 0.94, spread 54.1% of mid · Δ 0.16 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 10.80 × 11.55, spread 6.7% of mid · Δ -0.83 net GEX +$1.3m per 1% (calls +$1.3m, puts +$0)strike 72.5 calls: OI 4,758 (-73) · vol 2 (at ask 0, at bid 2, multi-leg 2) · NBBO 1.00 × 1.33, spread 28.3% of mid · Δ 0.23 puts: OI 26 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 8.60 × 10.00, spread 15.1% of mid · Δ -0.78 net GEX +$651k per 1% (calls +$655k, puts -$4k)strike 71 calls: OI 1,915 (+265) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 1.26 × 1.58, spread 22.5% of mid · Δ 0.27 puts: OI 21 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 7.40 × 8.05, spread 8.4% of mid · Δ -0.74 net GEX +$289k per 1% (calls +$292k, puts -$3k)strike 70 calls: OI 7,439 (-353) · vol 638 (at ask 22, at bid 612, multi-leg 609) · NBBO 1.38 × 1.76, spread 24.2% of mid · Δ 0.31 puts: OI 35 (-1) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 6.60 × 7.10, spread 7.3% of mid · Δ -0.71 net GEX +$1.2m per 1% (calls +$1.2m, puts -$6k)strike 69 calls: OI 2,350 (+1,801) · vol 37 (at ask 28, at bid 8, multi-leg 16) · NBBO 1.62 × 2.02, spread 22.0% of mid · Δ 0.34 puts: OI 106 (+1) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 5.85 × 6.55, spread 11.3% of mid · Δ -0.67 net GEX +$380k per 1% (calls +$399k, puts -$19k)strike 67.5 calls: OI 6,699 (-235) · vol 25 (at ask 8, at bid 17, sweep 4, multi-leg 1) · NBBO 2.10 × 2.60, spread 21.3% of mid · Δ 0.40 puts: OI 470 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 4.80 × 6.00, spread 22.2% of mid · Δ -0.61 net GEX +$1.1m per 1% (calls +$1.2m, puts -$88k)strike 66 calls: OI 2,536 (-69) · vol 128 (at ask 0, at bid 124, multi-leg 126) · NBBO 2.68 × 3.20, spread 17.7% of mid · Δ 0.47 puts: OI 3,057 (+3) · vol 55 (at ask 12, at bid 43, multi-leg 2) · NBBO 4.00 × 5.20, spread 26.1% of mid · Δ -0.54 net GEX -$143k per 1% (calls +$462k, puts -$605k)strike 65 calls: OI 38,839 (+108) · vol 92 (at ask 54, at bid 35, sweep 4, multi-leg 54) · NBBO 3.20 × 3.70, spread 14.5% of mid · Δ 0.51 puts: OI 2,496 (+341) · vol 48 (at ask 20, at bid 28) · NBBO 3.35 × 3.70, spread 9.9% of mid · Δ -0.50 net GEX +$6.5m per 1% (calls +$7.0m, puts -$501k)strike 64 calls: OI 1,949 (-3) · vol 134 (at ask 69, at bid 65, multi-leg 57) · NBBO 3.85 × 4.35, spread 12.2% of mid · Δ 0.55 puts: OI 2,561 (+104) · vol 51 (at ask 10, at bid 38) · NBBO 2.90 × 3.20, spread 9.8% of mid · Δ -0.45 net GEX -$160k per 1% (calls +$342k, puts -$502k)strike 62.5 calls: OI 35,907 (-5) · vol 47 (at ask 44, at bid 1, multi-leg 4) · NBBO 4.55 × 4.95, spread 8.4% of mid · Δ 0.62 puts: OI 60,252 (+197) · vol 176 (at ask 1, at bid 168, sweep 5, multi-leg 1) · NBBO 2.42 × 2.59, spread 6.8% of mid · Δ -0.38 net GEX -$4.8m per 1% (calls +$6.1m, puts -$10.9m)strike 61 calls: OI 1,060 (+0) · vol 10 (at ask 7, at bid 3, multi-leg 3) · NBBO 5.45 × 5.90, spread 7.9% of mid · Δ 0.68 puts: OI 2,344 (-1) · vol 2 (at ask 1, at bid 1, sweep 1) · NBBO 1.61 × 2.12, spread 27.3% of mid · Δ -0.32 net GEX -$215k per 1% (calls +$172k, puts -$387k)strike 60 calls: OI 58,881 (+58) · vol 238 (at ask 226, at bid 12, multi-leg 22) · NBBO 5.95 × 6.55, spread 9.6% of mid · Δ 0.73 puts: OI 49,389 (-111) · vol 435 (at ask 19, at bid 409, multi-leg 416) · NBBO 1.52 × 2.58, spread 51.7% of mid · Δ -0.27 net GEX +$1.5m per 1% (calls +$9.2m, puts -$7.7m)strike 59 calls: OI 1,376 (+1) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 6.25 × 7.30, spread 15.5% of mid · Δ 0.77 puts: OI 1,283 (-7) · vol 110 (at ask 98, at bid 2) · NBBO 1.16 × 1.39, spread 18.0% of mid · Δ -0.23 net GEX +$18k per 1% (calls +$203k, puts -$185k)strike 57.5 calls: OI 8,524 (+0) · vol 1 (at ask 1, at bid 0) · NBBO 7.60 × 8.40, spread 10.0% of mid · Δ 0.82 puts: OI 34,770 (-2) · vol 14 (at ask 5, at bid 7, multi-leg 8) · NBBO 0.75 × 0.96, spread 24.6% of mid · Δ -0.18 net GEX -$3.2m per 1% (calls +$1.1m, puts -$4.3m)strike 56 calls: OI 2,086 (-488) · vol 1 (at ask 0, at bid 1) · NBBO 8.90 × 9.65, spread 8.1% of mid · Δ 0.86 puts: OI 739 (+4) · vol 70 (at ask 52, at bid 16, sweep 5, multi-leg 1) · NBBO 0.60 × 0.72, spread 18.2% of mid · Δ -0.14 net GEX +$137k per 1% (calls +$212k, puts -$75k)strike 55 calls: OI 4,104 (+0) · vol 24 (at ask 15, at bid 3, multi-leg 24) · NBBO 10.05 × 10.50, spread 4.4% of mid · Δ 0.89 puts: OI 40,978 (+3,027) · vol 142 (at ask 0, at bid 142) · NBBO 0.40 × 0.55, spread 31.6% of mid · Δ -0.11 net GEX -$3.2m per 1% (calls +$359k, puts -$3.6m)strike 54 calls: OI 15,260 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 10.45 × 11.40, spread 8.7% of mid · Δ 0.91 puts: OI 7,524 (+0) · vol 104 (at ask 1, at bid 103) · NBBO 0.37 × 0.44, spread 17.3% of mid · Δ -0.09 net GEX +$561k per 1% (calls +$1.1m, puts -$560k)strike 52.5 calls: OI 2,092 (-20) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 11.80 × 12.75, spread 7.7% of mid · Δ 0.95 puts: OI 37,989 (-3) · vol 3 (at ask 0, at bid 2, multi-leg 1) · NBBO 0.16 × 0.30, spread 60.9% of mid · Δ -0.06 net GEX -$2.1m per 1% (calls +$106k, puts -$2.2m)strike 51 calls: OI 189 (+0) · vol 29 (at ask 0, at bid 29, multi-leg 19) · NBBO 13.70 × 14.15, spread 3.2% of mid · Δ 0.97 puts: OI 3,780 (+1) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.14 × 0.26, spread 60.0% of mid · Δ -0.05 net GEX -$156k per 1% (calls +$6k, puts -$162k)strike 50 calls: OI 2,331 (+1) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 14.65 × 15.15, spread 3.4% of mid · Δ 0.98 puts: OI 38,579 (+1) · vol 2 (at ask 0, at bid 2) · NBBO 0.12 × 0.19, spread 45.2% of mid · Δ -0.04 net GEX -$1.3m per 1% (calls +$57k, puts -$1.4m)strike 49 calls: OI 81 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 14.85 × 16.10, spread 8.1% of mid · Δ 0.99 puts: OI 2,504 (+0) · vol 1 (at ask 0, at bid 0, multi-leg 1) · NBBO 0.07 × 0.22, spread 103.4% of mid · Δ -0.03 net GEX -$74k per 1% (calls +$1k, puts -$75k)

2026-12-18 expiry, 22 strikes within ±25% of book spot (the flip search band); 33 hidden (2 above, 31 below), 33 of them with open interest. One row per listed strike: rows are evenly spaced, prices are not. Net GEX is this expiry's alone (-$2.9m per 1% in all); 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 $63.00 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.

Table view · 22 strikes
putsstrikecallsGEX, $ per 1%
ΔOIOImulti-legsweep@bid@askvolΔspraskbidbidasksprΔvol@ask@bidsweepmulti-legOIΔOIputcallnet
+0000000-0.879.2%17.0515.55800.120.42111.1%0.09404015,238-58+$0+$355k+$355k
+0000000-0.836.7%11.5510.80750.540.9454.1%0.164313023011,396+75+$0+$1.3m+$1.3m
+02600000-0.7815.1%10.008.6072.51.001.3328.3%0.23202024,758-73-$4k+$655k+$651k
+02100000-0.748.4%8.057.40711.261.5822.5%0.27000001,915+265-$3k+$292k+$289k
-13500000-0.717.3%7.106.60701.381.7624.2%0.316382261206097,439-353-$6k+$1.2m+$1.2m
+110600000-0.6711.3%6.555.85691.622.0222.0%0.34372880162,350+1,801-$19k+$399k+$380k
+047000000-0.6122.2%6.004.8067.52.102.6021.3%0.4025817416,699-235-$88k+$1.2m+$1.1m
+33,05720431255-0.5426.1%5.204.00662.683.2017.7%0.47128012401262,536-69-$605k+$462k-$143k
+3412,49600282048-0.509.9%3.703.35653.203.7014.5%0.5192543545438,839+108-$501k+$7.0m+$6.5m
+1042,56100381051-0.459.8%3.202.90643.854.3512.2%0.5513469650571,949-3-$502k+$342k-$160k
+19760,252151681176-0.386.8%2.592.4262.54.554.958.4%0.62474410435,907-5-$10.9m+$6.1m-$4.8m
-12,34401112-0.3227.3%2.121.61615.455.907.9%0.681073031,060+0-$387k+$172k-$215k
-11149,389416040919435-0.2751.7%2.581.52605.956.559.6%0.732382261202258,881+58-$7.7m+$9.2m+$1.5m
-71,28300298110-0.2318.0%1.391.16596.257.3015.5%0.77000001,376+1-$185k+$203k+$18k
-234,770807514-0.1824.6%0.960.7557.57.608.4010.0%0.82110008,524+0-$4.3m+$1.1m-$3.2m
+473915165270-0.1418.2%0.720.60568.909.658.1%0.86101002,086-488-$75k+$212k+$137k
+3,02740,978001420142-0.1131.6%0.550.405510.0510.504.4%0.89241530244,104+0-$3.6m+$359k-$3.2m
+07,524001031104-0.0917.3%0.440.375410.4511.408.7%0.910000015,260+0-$560k+$1.1m+$561k
-337,98910203-0.0660.9%0.300.1652.511.8012.757.7%0.95000002,092-20-$2.2m+$106k-$2.1m
+13,78000000-0.0560.0%0.260.145113.7014.153.2%0.9729029019189+0-$162k+$6k-$156k
+138,57900202-0.0445.2%0.190.125014.6515.153.4%0.98000002,331+1-$1.4m+$57k-$1.3m
+02,50410001-0.03103.4%0.220.074914.8516.108.1%0.990000081+0-$75k+$1k-$74k