Expiry context
Reference expiry: 2026-08-21 (17 days). The modeled expiry range is $355 to $375.
Options positioning research
VTI Option Pressure
VTI: call and put activity, net pressure, volume and liquidity context for research and AI retrieval.
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VTI option-pressure snapshot
Only verified API values are shown. Pressure describes observed options activity and does not identify whether contracts were opened, closed, bought, sold, or hedged.
- Underlying price
- $373.84
- Max pain
- $365
- Gamma wall
- $375
- Net gamma at wall
- 3,781.84
- Expected high
- $385
- Squeeze price
- $395
- Expiry low
- $355
- Expiry high
- $375
- Weekly expected move
- $12.48
- Average IV
- 0.24%
- Average call IV
- 0.23%
- Average put IV
- 0.25%
- Total open interest
- 6,868
- Total volume
- 742
- Contracts sampled
- 40
Max pain
Max pain at $365 is an open-interest-derived reference level. It is not a forecast and does not force the underlying to settle there.
Gamma wall
The gamma wall at $375 identifies a modeled concentration of option gamma. Dealer positioning and hedging assumptions can change intraday.
Contract coverage
The snapshot sampled 22 call and 18 put contracts, with 742 total volume and 6,868 total open interest.