Part of today's action can be attributed to buyers rallying the rumored possibility of an interim rate cut any day now. It's been widely speculated that weak economic numbers could spur the Fed into moving forward tomorrow, so bulls rallied into that today. We are trying real hard but that image just doesn't manage to appear for us. We can only assume there will be further weakness unless strength is proven otherwise. Only time will tell.
Ratio listed is percentage of calls to puts or puts to calls respectively.
Support is factored from dividing puts by calls at strike levels beneath index closing price. Resistance is factored from dividing calls by puts at strike levels above current closing price. A reading above 10.00 is considered viable resistance or support respectively within that general strike price range. Full updates will be provided then.