S&P 500 The Hidden Divergence in Put/Call Data
VIX at 26.78 tells you the market is afraid. But VIX alone misses the more interesting story: who is hedging and who is not. The SPX put/call ratio at 1.26 shows institutions are aggressively buying index protection. The equity put/call ratio at 0.58 shows retail traders are still buying calls on individual stocks. That divergence…
