Highest Open Interest in Stock Options Visualized

Highest Open Interest among option strike price is the widely used terminology to identify where most of the liquidity flow happens i.e where more of the writers and buyers willing to hang around. Is there we can get any meaningful & real intelligence from such information that is the curiosity it makes me to collect historical highest open interest for all the stock futures price using python (my team had built me a simple app which does that little work) and used plot.ly for visualization.

Here are the Real Findings from the overall data collected

1)Call Writers Intelligence is there in selected scrips only during selected phases. Cannot be used as a potential resistance all the time.

2)In a trending markets call writers where they build highest open interest tends to fail and has to be in a continuous firefighting situation (i.e continuous re-adjustment is required. Only an active trader can do that). At times these call writers tend to get trapped in the trends. Never ever think of doing call writing as part-time business especially if you are new to the world of options writing.

3)Most of the Stocks have more of call writing happening compared to put writing – possibly Put writers find less liquidity from put buyers or naked put writing is one of the worst strategies in case of any deep black swan events and writers tend to avoid it as many active option writers will be aware of this taleb’s thing.

4)Put writing is primarily seen in popular stocks like SBIN, AXISBANK post their earning results announcements.

5)And Last but not least – approximately 90% of call buying market share in stock options are owned by Retail clients at any given month.

Retail Clients Options Data – Green line indicates call buying open interest over a period of time from retail clients.

Here are some of the stock charts visualization for your understanding where the blue line is the stock price, Green Dots are the strike price where highest calls open interest got built and red dots are the strike price where highest put open interest got built. More consecutive dots you see more adamant the call writers/put writers are.

HDFCBANK Highest Open Interest Visualization

HDFCBANK Highest Open Interest Visualization. pic.twitter.com/iSn0LtFq6Q

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JUBLFOOD Highest Open Interest Visualization

Jubilant Foods Highest Open Interest Visualization. pic.twitter.com/Mpbv3XsxmV

— Marketcalls (@marketcalls_) June 2, 2018

RELIANCE Highest Open Interest Visualization

Reliance Highest Open Interest Visualization pic.twitter.com/HmouAOX8Cm

— Marketcalls (@marketcalls_) June 2, 2018

TECHM Highest Open Interest Visualization

TECHM – call writers trapped in APR series at 650CE pic.twitter.com/yxaLX7NNpE

— Marketcalls (@marketcalls_) June 2, 2018

PNB Highest Open Interest Visualization

PNB – Highest Open Interest Visualization
Never wondered why put writers seek liquidity especially in stocks #deadmansgame pic.twitter.com/0pXMLrJQX2

— Marketcalls (@marketcalls_) June 2, 2018

MARUTI Highest Open Interest Visualization

Maruti – Highly Organized Call Writers pic.twitter.com/Z5BkaJt3rv

— Marketcalls (@marketcalls_) June 2, 2018

BANKINDIA Highest Open Interest Visualization

BANKINDIA Highest OI Visualization pic.twitter.com/MxGkPWF3x3

— Marketcalls (@marketcalls_) June 2, 2018

POWERGRID Highest Open Interest Visualization

It is relatively easy to write Calls/Puts in Powergrid unless you get a black swan event like ITC pic.twitter.com/hSlhRbmBvF

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AXISBANK Highest Open Interest Visualization

AXISBANK – One of the places where put writers are hanging around post its earnings result. pic.twitter.com/Cbs9TMNJ6E

— Marketcalls (@marketcalls_) June 2, 2018

SBIN Highest Open Interest Visualization

SBIN : Put writers post Earnings results pic.twitter.com/gEKSNmRhzK

— Marketcalls (@marketcalls_) June 2, 2018

RCOM Highest Open Interest Visualization

And the most speculated RCOM pic.twitter.com/yim61PpR3Q

— Marketcalls (@marketcalls_) June 2, 2018

If you have any interesting thoughts about this visualization or you find something interesting about highest open interest do share here in the comment section.