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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 2026-11-20 expiry: 63 calendar days from 2026-09-18 (64 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 (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 44 (Δ 0.21), put 40 (Δ -0.23).

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% move525150494847464544434241403938373635343332put strike nearest 0.20 delta: 40call strike nearest 0.20 delta: 44101808025%10%10%25%-$1+$1γ flip 42.34call wall 42put wall 42book spot 41.69strike 52 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 2.13, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.00 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 8.60 × 12.90, spread 40.0% of mid · Δ -0.97 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 51 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.78, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.00 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 7.65 × 11.65, spread 41.5% of mid · Δ -0.95 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 50 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 2.14, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.01 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 6.65 × 10.65, spread 46.2% of mid · Δ -0.93 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 49 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.50, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.02 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 5.45 × 9.90, spread 58.0% of mid · Δ -0.91 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 48 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.15, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.03 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 4.65 × 8.70, spread 60.7% of mid · Δ -0.87 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 47 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 1 (at ask 1, at bid 0, multi-leg 1) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.35, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.06 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 3.65 × 7.70, spread 71.4% of mid · Δ -0.83 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 46 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.37, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.09 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 4.35 × 5.80, spread 28.6% of mid · Δ -0.82 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 45 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 51 (at ask 50, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.17 × 0.25, spread 38.1% of mid · Δ 0.14 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 3.35 × 3.90, spread 15.2% of mid · Δ -0.79 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 44 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 1 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.17 × 0.44, spread 88.5% of mid · Δ 0.21 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 1.33 × 3.45, spread 88.7% of mid · Δ -0.75 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 43 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 1 (at ask 1, at bid 0, multi-leg 1) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.72, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ 0.34 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 12 (at ask 2, at bid 10, multi-leg 12) · NBBO 1.76 × 2.08, spread 16.7% of mid · Δ -0.66 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 42 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 10 (at ask 2, at bid 8, sweep 2, multi-leg 2) · NBBO 0.35 × 1.23, spread 111.4% of mid · Δ 0.48 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 17 (at ask 4, at bid 11, multi-leg 17) · NBBO 1.10 × 1.42, spread 25.4% of mid · Δ -0.53 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 41 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 28 (at ask 3, at bid 25, sweep 18) · NBBO 1.30 × 1.80, spread 32.3% of mid · Δ 0.61 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.57 × 1.07, spread 61.0% of mid · Δ -0.38 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 40 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 4 (at ask 0, at bid 4) · NBBO 2.05 × 2.50, spread 19.8% of mid · Δ 0.73 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 1.05, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.23 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 39 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 2.75 × 3.30, spread 18.2% of mid · Δ 0.82 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.59, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.12 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 38 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 3.40 × 4.55, spread 28.9% of mid · Δ 0.90 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 2.31, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.05 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 37 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 3.15 × 6.60, spread 70.8% of mid · Δ 0.95 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.30, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.02 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 36 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 80 (at ask 0, at bid 80, multi-leg 80) · NBBO 5.25 × 7.75, spread 38.5% of mid · Δ 0.98 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.22, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.01 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 35 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 4.65 × 8.25, spread 55.8% of mid · Δ 0.99 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 2.17, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.00 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 34 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 5.65 × 9.25, spread 48.3% of mid · Δ 1.00 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.11, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.00 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 33 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 6.60 × 10.30, spread 43.8% of mid · Δ 1.00 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.62, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.00 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)strike 32 calls: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 7.40 × 11.45, spread 43.0% of mid · Δ 1.00 puts: OI 0 (no prior OI) · vol 0 (at ask 0, at bid 0) · NBBO 0.00 × 0.09, spread no two-sided quote (zero bid) · Δ -0.00 no GEX (no side has both gamma and open interest)

2026-11-20 expiry, 21 strikes within ±25% of book spot (the flip search band); 1 hidden (0 above, 1 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; 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 · 21 strikes
putsstrikecallsGEX, $ per 1%
ΔOIOImulti-legsweep@bid@askvolΔspraskbidbidasksprΔvol@ask@bidsweepmulti-legOIΔOIputcallnet
000000-0.9740.0%12.908.60520.002.13no two-sided quote0.00000000
000000-0.9541.5%11.657.65510.000.78no two-sided quote0.00000000
000000-0.9346.2%10.656.65500.002.14no two-sided quote0.01000000
000000-0.9158.0%9.905.45490.000.50no two-sided quote0.02000000
000000-0.8760.7%8.704.65480.000.15no two-sided quote0.03000000
000000-0.8371.4%7.703.65470.000.35no two-sided quote0.06110010
000000-0.8228.6%5.804.35460.000.37no two-sided quote0.09000000
000000-0.7915.2%3.903.35450.170.2538.1%0.1451500000
000000-0.7588.7%3.451.33440.170.4488.5%0.21100000
012010212-0.6616.7%2.081.76430.000.72no two-sided quote0.34110010
017011417-0.5325.4%1.421.10420.351.23111.4%0.481028220
000000-0.3861.0%1.070.57411.301.8032.3%0.61283251800
000000-0.23no two-sided quote1.050.00402.052.5019.8%0.73404000
000000-0.12no two-sided quote0.590.00392.753.3018.2%0.82000000
000000-0.05no two-sided quote2.310.00383.404.5528.9%0.90000000
000000-0.02no two-sided quote0.300.00373.156.6070.8%0.95000000
000000-0.01no two-sided quote0.220.00365.257.7538.5%0.98800800800
000000-0.00no two-sided quote2.170.00354.658.2555.8%0.99000000
000000-0.00no two-sided quote0.110.00345.659.2548.3%1.00000000
000000-0.00no two-sided quote0.620.00336.6010.3043.8%1.00000000
000000-0.00no two-sided quote0.090.00327.4011.4543.0%1.00000000