New and part-time traders may be best served to merely watch the market world go by. Profit and loss come and go so fast it can be impossible to keep up. Tumultuous action cannot and will not last forever but it may continue for awhile. Fearless forecast of the month. 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. Small specs are the general trading public with commercials being financial institutions. Commercials are historically on the correct side of future trend changes while small specs are not. Extreme divergence between each signals a possible market turn in favor of the commercial trader's direction. The DJIA had both sides moving in synch as they lightened their net-short holdings.