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XLU

$41.10 unadjusted close, 2026-09-18
as of 2026-09-18
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Implied volatility · 30-day constant maturity

level
15.3%
IV percentile
20.3%
own all (<3y) · n=241
IV rank
26.2%
own all (<1y) · n=241
range
12.5% – 23.2%
own all (<1y) · n=241
low 12.5%241 sessions, all (<1y) · today 15.3%high 23.2%

Term structure · constant maturity

12 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)1d5d7d14d30d60d90d180d365d17.9%12.9%
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
16.0%
own all (<3y) 9.1% · n=241
slope, 30d − 90d
-0.7 pts
own all (<3y) 40.2% · n=241
variance risk premium, 30d
+1.1 pts
own all (<3y) 37.5% · n=236

Skew · risk reversal

25-delta
-0.9 pts
own all (<3y) 55.7% · n=35
10-delta
-4.4 pts
own all (<3y) 12.9% · 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 29%31%9%2.3%book spot+2.3%
8d2026-09-25
2026-09-25: 6 put and 5 call strikes within ±6.5%, IV 10% to 30%31%9%6.5%book spot+6.5%
15d2026-10-02
2026-10-02: 7 put and 7 call strikes within ±8.8%, IV 12% to 26%31%9%8.8%book spot+8.8%
22d2026-10-09
2026-10-09: 8 put and 8 call strikes within ±11%, IV 13% to 25%31%9%11%book spot+11%
29d2026-10-16
2026-10-16: 4 put and 5 call strikes within ±12%, IV 13% to 23%31%9%12%book spot+12%
36d2026-10-23
2026-10-23: 6 put and 8 call strikes within ±14%, IV 14% to 22%31%9%14%book spot+14%
92d2026-12-18
2026-12-18: 4 put and 11 call strikes within ±22%, IV 14% to 19%31%9%22%book spot+22%
120d2027-01-15
2027-01-15: 5 put and 9 call strikes within ±25%, IV 14% to 21%31%9%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 (9%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)no IV at 41.5
2026-10-30 Friweekly422026-10-0214dno earnings (ETF)19.2% p 41.5
2026-11-20 Fri632026-10-2335dno earnings (ETF)14.4% c 42

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 XLU 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
-$40.3m per 1%
own all (<3y) 0.8% · n=64
gamma flip
$42.34
flip within ±25% of book spot
flip distance
+1.03 ATR
own all (<3y) 92.1% · n=57
0DTE share of volume
not listed daily

book spot $41.69 (unadjusted close, 2026-09-17) · call wall $42.00 (+0.74% from book spot) · put wall $42.00 (+0.74% from book spot) · max pain $42.00 (+0.74% 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 $41.69 × (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. XLU headlines $41.10, its newest unadjusted close, on 2026-09-18; the book was taken at $41.69 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 2026-10-30 expiry: 42 calendar days from 2026-09-18 (43 from the book date), inside 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 44 (Δ 0.18), put 40 (Δ -0.22).

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% move5251504948.54847.54746.54645.54544.54443.54342.54241.54140.54039.53938.53837put strike nearest 0.20 delta: 40call strike nearest 0.20 delta: 44580058032132125%10%10%25%-$112k+$112kγ flip 42.34call wall 42put wall 42book spot 41.69strike 52 calls: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.26, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.00 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 9.50 × 11.95, spread 22.8% of mid · Δ -0.97 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 51 calls: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.27, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.00 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 8.30 × 10.95, spread 27.5% of mid · Δ -0.96 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 50 calls: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.27, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.00 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 7.35 × 9.90, spread 29.6% of mid · Δ -0.94 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 49 calls: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.27, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.01 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 6.70 × 9.65, spread 36.1% of mid · Δ -0.92 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 48.5 calls: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.28, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.02 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 5.85 × 8.45, spread 36.4% of mid · Δ -0.91 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 48 calls: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.28, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.02 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 5.35 × 8.65, spread 47.1% of mid · Δ -0.89 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 47.5 calls: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.29, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.03 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 4.85 × 8.15, spread 50.8% of mid · Δ -0.87 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 47 calls: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.29, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.05 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 4.60 × 6.95, spread 40.7% of mid · Δ -0.85 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 46.5 calls: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.30, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.06 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 4.65 × 6.15, spread 27.8% of mid · Δ -0.82 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 46 calls: OI 130 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.31, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.07 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 4.15 × 5.55, spread 28.9% of mid · Δ -0.82 net GEX +$11k per 1% (calls +$11k, puts +$0)strike 45.5 calls: OI 138 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.01 × 0.36, spread 189.2% of mid · Δ 0.09 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 2.85 × 6.35, spread 76.1% of mid · Δ -0.81 net GEX +$15k per 1% (calls +$15k, puts +$0)strike 45 calls: OI 8 (+0) · vol 4 (at ask 2, at bid 2, multi-leg 4) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.19, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.12 puts: OI 5 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 2.90 × 4.60, spread 45.3% of mid · Δ -0.79 net GEX +$377 per 1% (calls +$1k, puts -$678)strike 44.5 calls: OI 3 (+0) · vol 2 (at ask 1, at bid 1, multi-leg 2) · NBBO 0.10 × 0.38, spread 116.7% of mid · Δ 0.15 puts: OI 1 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 2.85 × 3.65, spread 24.6% of mid · Δ -0.78 net GEX +$327 per 1% (calls +$481, puts -$155)strike 44 calls: OI 580 (+2) · vol 4 (at ask 2, at bid 1, multi-leg 3) · NBBO 0.11 × 0.35, spread 104.3% of mid · Δ 0.18 puts: OI 5 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 2.40 × 3.05, spread 23.9% of mid · Δ -0.75 net GEX +$112k per 1% (calls +$113k, puts -$889)strike 43.5 calls: OI 21 (+1) · vol 7 (at ask 5, at bid 2, multi-leg 3) · NBBO 0.03 × 0.47, spread 176.0% of mid · Δ 0.22 puts: OI 19 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 1.83 × 2.67, spread 37.3% of mid · Δ -0.72 net GEX +$1k per 1% (calls +$5k, puts -$4k)strike 43 calls: OI 107 (+0) · vol 3 (at ask 2, at bid 1, multi-leg 3) · NBBO 0.24 × 0.52, spread 73.7% of mid · Δ 0.30 puts: OI 166 (+2) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 1.61 × 2.07, spread 25.0% of mid · Δ -0.67 net GEX -$11k per 1% (calls +$29k, puts -$39k)strike 42.5 calls: OI 165 (+1) · vol 5 (at ask 3, at bid 2, multi-leg 4) · NBBO 0.26 × 0.75, spread 97.0% of mid · Δ 0.37 puts: OI 6 (+0) · vol 1 (at ask 1, at bid 0, multi-leg 1) · NBBO 1.24 × 1.60, spread 25.4% of mid · Δ -0.61 net GEX +$48k per 1% (calls +$49k, puts -$2k)strike 42 calls: OI 75 (+40) · vol 9 (at ask 0, at bid 1, multi-leg 8) · NBBO 0.45 × 0.95, spread 71.4% of mid · Δ 0.46 puts: OI 28 (+0) · vol 1 (at ask 0, at bid 1) · NBBO 0.89 × 1.30, spread 37.4% of mid · Δ -0.53 net GEX +$17k per 1% (calls +$25k, puts -$8k)strike 41.5 calls: OI 32 (+0) · vol 321 (at ask 161, at bid 153, sweep 150, multi-leg 1) · NBBO 0.84 × 1.01, spread 18.4% of mid · Δ 0.56 puts: OI 7 (+2) · vol 1 (at ask 0, at bid 0, multi-leg 1) · NBBO 0.69 × 0.97, spread 33.7% of mid · Δ -0.45 net GEX +$9k per 1% (calls +$11k, puts -$2k)strike 41 calls: OI 0 (-1) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.96 × 1.54, spread 46.4% of mid · Δ 0.65 puts: OI 71 (+58) · vol 6 (at ask 0, at bid 5, multi-leg 3) · NBBO 0.40 × 0.74, spread 59.6% of mid · Δ -0.36 net GEX -$21k per 1% (calls +$0, puts -$21k)strike 40.5 calls: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 1.27 × 1.85, spread 37.2% of mid · Δ 0.73 puts: OI 58 (+1) · vol 12 (at ask 1, at bid 1, multi-leg 2) · NBBO 0.24 × 0.77, spread 105.0% of mid · Δ -0.29 net GEX -$15k per 1% (calls +$0, puts -$15k)strike 40 calls: OI 5 (+5) · vol 2 (at ask 2, at bid 0) · NBBO 1.78 × 2.22, spread 22.0% of mid · Δ 0.80 puts: OI 21 (+1) · vol 16 (at ask 10, at bid 6, multi-leg 5) · NBBO 0.19 × 0.40, spread 71.2% of mid · Δ -0.22 net GEX -$3k per 1% (calls +$1k, puts -$5k)strike 39.5 calls: OI 6 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 2.01 × 2.59, spread 25.2% of mid · Δ 0.88 puts: OI 1 (+0) · vol 1 (at ask 0, at bid 1, multi-leg 1) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.35, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.16 net GEX +$871 per 1% (calls +$1k, puts -$179)strike 39 calls: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 2.36 × 3.10, spread 27.1% of mid · Δ 0.93 puts: OI 4 (+0) · vol 4 (at ask 1, at bid 1, multi-leg 2) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.66, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.12 net GEX -$562 per 1% (calls +$0, puts -$562)strike 38.5 calls: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 2.75 × 3.55, spread 25.4% of mid · Δ 0.96 puts: OI 0 (+0) · vol 2 (at ask 1, at bid 1, multi-leg 2) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.40, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.08 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 38 calls: OI 16 (+10) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 3.10 × 4.20, spread 30.1% of mid · Δ 0.98 puts: OI 5 (+5) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.36, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.05 net GEX +$405 per 1% (calls +$777, puts -$372)strike 37 calls: OI 0 (+0) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 3.35 × 6.00, spread 56.7% of mid · Δ 0.99 puts: OI 0 (-2) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.32, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.02 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)

2026-10-30 expiry, 27 strikes within ±25% of book spot (the flip search band); 3 hidden (3 above, 0 below), 0 of them with open interest. One row per listed strike: rows are evenly spaced, prices are not. Net GEX is this expiry's alone (+$165k 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 $42.00 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 · 27 strikes
putsstrikecallsGEX, $ per 1%
ΔOIOImulti-legsweep@bid@askvolΔspraskbidbidasksprΔvol@ask@bidsweepmulti-legOIΔOIputcallnet
+0000000-0.9722.8%11.959.50520.000.26no two-sided quote0.00000000+0
+0000000-0.9627.5%10.958.30510.000.27no two-sided quote0.00000000+0
+0000000-0.9429.6%9.907.35500.000.27no two-sided quote0.00000000+0
+0000000-0.9236.1%9.656.70490.000.27no two-sided quote0.01000000+0
+0000000-0.9136.4%8.455.8548.50.000.28no two-sided quote0.02000000+0
+0000000-0.8947.1%8.655.35480.000.28no two-sided quote0.02000000+0
+0000000-0.8750.8%8.154.8547.50.000.29no two-sided quote0.03000000+0
+0000000-0.8540.7%6.954.60470.000.29no two-sided quote0.05000000+0
+0000000-0.8227.8%6.154.6546.50.000.30no two-sided quote0.06000000+0
+0000000-0.8228.9%5.554.15460.000.31no two-sided quote0.0700000130+0+$0+$11k+$11k
+0000000-0.8176.1%6.352.8545.50.010.36189.2%0.0900000138+0+$0+$15k+$15k
+0500000-0.7945.3%4.602.90450.000.19no two-sided quote0.12422048+0-$678+$1k+$377
+0100000-0.7824.6%3.652.8544.50.100.38116.7%0.15211023+0-$155+$481+$327
+0500000-0.7523.9%3.052.40440.110.35104.3%0.1842103580+2-$889+$113k+$112k
+01900000-0.7237.3%2.671.8343.50.030.47176.0%0.227520321+1-$4k+$5k+$1k
+216600000-0.6725.0%2.071.61430.240.5273.7%0.3032103107+0-$39k+$29k-$11k
+0610011-0.6125.4%1.601.2442.50.260.7597.0%0.3753204165+1-$2k+$49k+$48k
+02800101-0.5337.4%1.300.89420.450.9571.4%0.469010875+40-$8k+$25k+$17k
+2710001-0.4533.7%0.970.6941.50.841.0118.4%0.56321161153150132+0-$2k+$11k+$9k
+587130506-0.3659.6%0.740.40410.961.5446.4%0.65000000-1-$21k+$0-$21k
+158201112-0.29105.0%0.770.2440.51.271.8537.2%0.73000000+0-$15k+$0-$15k
+1215061016-0.2271.2%0.400.19401.782.2222.0%0.80220005+5-$5k+$1k-$3k
+0110101-0.16no two-sided quote0.350.0039.52.012.5925.2%0.88000006+0-$179+$1k+$871
+0420114-0.12no two-sided quote0.660.00392.363.1027.1%0.93000000+0-$562+$0-$562
+0020112-0.08no two-sided quote0.400.0038.52.753.5525.4%0.96000000+0
+5500000-0.05no two-sided quote0.360.00383.104.2030.1%0.980000016+10-$372+$777+$405
-2000000-0.02no two-sided quote0.320.00373.356.0056.7%0.99000000+0