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IGIB Max Pain, Dark Pool & Options Flow
IGIB max pain for the Oct 16, 2026 expiry is $51, from the Fri Oct 2 options chain. The last price, $50.15, is 1.7% below it. Call wall $54 · put floor $49.
What the institutional money is doing on IGIB right now — dark pool, options positioning, and where the news and the money disagree. Free.
The money right now
Dark pool share
61.8% (market avg 50%)
Dark pool volume vs its norm
1.0×
Short share of that
55.5% (norm 60%)
Price
$50.15
Max pain
$51
Oct 16 exp
Call wall
$54
Oct 16 exp
Put floor
$49
Oct 16 exp
Put/Call ratio
4.13
Squeeze pressure
30
Dark pool share: 62% of the tape printed away from the public book — 12pp above the market
Off-exchange prints never touch the public book, so they move size without moving the quote. That is the point of using them. This name structurally trades more off-exchange than most. That day's size was normal, though, so the elevated share alone does not say something happened that day. Short share of it: 56% vs a 60% norm.
Source: FINRA · Mon 10/5 close
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A divergence is when the news narrative and the institutional money flow point in opposite directions — a bearish headline while large call premium is bought, or heavy dark-pool selling under a bullish story. It signals the crowd and the desks may disagree.
How to read these numbers
Dark-pool volume — The share of trading executed off-exchange, at wholesalers and dark pools. About half of all US share volume prints there on an ordinary day, so the level by itself says almost nothing. What carries information is the distance from this name’s own recent norm, and whether the off-exchange size ran above its usual.
Off-exchange short share — How much of that off-exchange volume was sold short. The median across all listed names is about 49%, because wholesalers filling retail buy orders sell short and cover later. A reading near half is plumbing, not a bearish vote — compare it to the same name’s own 20-day norm.
Max pain — The price where the most options expire worthless — positioning often gravitates toward it near expiry.
Call wall / Put floor — Strikes with the heaviest call/put open interest — they often act as short-term resistance and support.
Put/Call ratio — Below ~0.7 leans bullish (more calls); above ~1 leans defensive (more puts).
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