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Market Signal

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.

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Use Value for the raw series and % from view start to rebase the first visible value in the current window to 0%.

Historical Context

Toggle the market-event markers above when you want to line recent regime shifts up with the signal.

Mar 16, 2020 COVID panic across global markets
Jan 27, 2021 Meme-stock squeeze warps single-name options activity
Mar 16, 2022 Fed hiking cycle begins
Mar 10, 2023 SVB failure sparks banking stress

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.
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