Call Options volume has already taken up as much as 70% of the options market, writing the highest record in the last four years. From the beginning of April to the present, that percentage has surged by 25 percentage points in just two months, breaking the record for the most dense two-month growth rate in history, and breaking through the short-lived high at the end of 2025. On the extended time axis, the average call Options over the last two years was just 55%. More horrifying than that, the overall value of Call Options in the S&P 500 as a percentage of its total market value has soared to a historically rare 4.1 times, doubling in two months. The herd instincts of group behavior and the desire for quick enrichment make retail investors and dynamic chase institutions crazily leverage. This extreme derivative imbalance forced Wall Street market makers to hedge risks by mechanically buying weighted stocks at no cost in the cash market, leading a highly frantic, forced-up-driven technical bulls.
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