VTI gamma levels
From the closing options book · September 4, 2026
VTI's closing options book on September 4, 2026 carried +$17.5 million of net dealer gamma spread across 5 expirations and 37 contracts. The sign is positive, so hedging leans against the move rather than with it.
The heaviest call-side strike sits at 380 and the heaviest put-side strike at 320, a band 16% wide. VTI has averaged 0.88% between its high and its low over the last 89 sessions, which makes the full width of that band about 18.0 average sessions of travel. It closed sitting on the call wall.
VTI closed at 379.73 — level with the call wall and 16% above the put wall. The call wall is not a distance away at all; price finished on it, which is the one state where a level is unambiguously in play. Most levels drawn on a chart are never reached at all, and the distance is what separates them.
The gamma flip — the level where the book changes sign — is at 380, and VTI closed essentially on top of it. That is the least settled place the book can end a session: the hedging behaviour on either side of that line is opposite, and price is on the line.
VTI's apex — the strike carrying the most gamma in absolute terms — is 380, the same strike as its call wall. When those stack on one level the book is concentrated rather than spread, and that single strike is doing most of the work.
Across the last 10 recorded sessions its call wall has not moved off 380 once, and its put wall has printed two different strikes. Walls that stay put and walls that migrate every session are different objects, and the difference shows up here before it shows up in price.
How VTI has behaved around these levels
Over the last 89 recorded sessions, VTI closed between the previous session's put wall and call wall 59 times. Its average daily range over that stretch was 0.88% of price. These are descriptions of what already happened — they are not a forecast, and no level holds every time.
VTI levels, last 10 sessions
| Session | Close | Apex | Call wall | Put wall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4 | 379.73 | 380 | 380 | 320 |
| Sep 3 | 380.93 | 380 | 380 | 320 |
| Sep 2 | 376.88 | 380 | 380 | 320 |
| Sep 1 | 375.17 | 380 | 380 | 320 |
| Aug 31 | 378.15 | 380 | 380 | 370 |
| Aug 28 | 379.36 | 380 | 380 | 370 |
| Aug 27 | 380.63 | 380 | 380 | 320 |
| Aug 26 | 378.23 | 380 | 380 | 320 |
| Aug 25 | 378.15 | 380 | 380 | 320 |
| Aug 24 | 377.07 | 380 | 380 | 320 |
Common questions
VTI's heaviest call-side gamma strike is 380, measured from the closing options book on September 4, 2026, and it closed level with that strike.
The heaviest put-side strike is 320, 16% below the September 4, 2026 close. Together with the 380 call wall it brackets a band 16% wide.
VTI's gamma flip is at 380, and it closed sitting on that level — above it the book is net positive gamma, below it net negative, and right now it is on the line.
Over the last 89 recorded sessions, VTI closed between the previous session's put wall and call wall 59 times, and 7 of the last 9. Those are counts of what already happened for this symbol — not a forecast, and not a claim about any level holding.
No. This page is built from the closing options book and rebuilt each night, so it describes September 4, 2026. Walls build and dissolve through a session — the live intraday board is inside FlowMonkey, and a free 15-minute delayed SPY board is public at flowmonkey.net/spy-gamma-heatmap.
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