← Browse all charts Are bearish or defensive options bets building across individual stocks?
Equity Put/Call Ratio (10-Day Smoothed)
A cleaner options-sentiment chart that smooths the daily equity-only put/call ratio so you can see whether fear or speculative upside appetite is building across individual stocks without the index-hedging noise in the headline total ratio.
The deep history is for NASDUCK paid members.
This free chart covers the last five years. Everything older, plus the CSV and JSON downloads, comes with a paid NASDUCK subscription.
Loading chart data…
Chart data did not load. The surrounding notes and downloads are still available.
The latest series values and a keyboard-readable date table are below the chart. CSV and JSON downloads are for NASDUCK paid members.
Use Value for the raw series and % from view start to rebase the first visible value in the current window to 0%.
Dates & readable data
Selected historical events
Curated anchors for market context, rather than a complete news feed. Toggle markers above to place them on the chart.
How To Read It
- Higher readings usually mean traders are leaning harder toward puts in single-name options, which often lines up with defensive sentiment or stress.
- The 10-day smoothing matters because the unsmoothed daily ratio is noisy enough to throw off the bigger signal.
- This is most useful at extremes and inflections, especially when it starts confirming or diverging from credit spreads and volatility charts.
Next step Fear shows up here first. TradeWatch reads it every market day.
VIX and put/call tell you how nervous the market is. TradeWatch adds what people are actually piling into, plus earnings targets.