META gamma exposure: flip, call wall, put wall

Dealer gamma by strike for Meta Platforms, from the option chain itself: two books, the level where net gamma changes sign, and the two strikes that carry the most. Expiries out to 120 days.

data as of 2026-10-12 16:00:04 ET · replay META in the terminal
Spot
743
from put-call parity
Zero gamma flip
723.2
2.7% below spot
Call wall
750
0.9% above spot
Put wall
730
1.8% below spot
Net gamma, volume
+$436M
per 1% move
Net gamma, OI
+$1.78B
per 1% move
Price sits above the flip at 723.2: on this book dealer hedging leans against a move rather than adding to it.
The session, 2026-09-29 priceflipcall wallput wall
750715709.3739 net gamma, volume book09:3010:3011:3012:3013:3014:3015:30
day10-1210-0910-0810-0710-0610-0510-0210-0109-3009-2909-2809-25 83 points · volume book · levels drawn as they stood
Strikes through the day levelchange since the open absorbs a movefeeds itprice
770765760757.5755752.5750747.5745742.5740737.5735732.5730727.5725722.5720717.5715712.571009:3010:3011:3012:3013:3014:3015:30
Gamma by strike, two books on one axis
OPEN INTEREST · last close
STRIKE
VOLUME · today
790
785
780
775
770
765
760
755
752.5
750
call wall
747.5
745
742.5
spot
740
737.5
735
732.5
730
put wall
727.5
725
722.5
720
717.5
715
712.5
710
707.5
705
702.5
700
697.5
By expiry, volume book
expiryflipcallputnet
2026-10-14724.1750742.5+$217M
2026-10-16728.2750740+$139M
2026-10-19727.9750747.5+$2M
2026-10-21n/a760700+$4M
2026-10-23692.8760745+$44M
2026-10-26n/a750745-$11M
How far to trust this bookC

a single stock with an active tape; the dealer-sign convention is an approximation here.

Prints a second, regular session5.69
Strikes where the two books agree on the sign72%
Contracts traded today, expiries shown497,494

What this page assumes

  • Calls count as dealer-long gamma and puts as dealer-short. That is a convention, not a measurement: open interest does not say who holds a contract.
  • The volume book signs today's traded contracts. The open-interest book uses positions as of the last close and does not move inside the day.
  • Spot is derived from the option quotes by put-call parity, so it can sit a few cents from the last trade in the underlying.
  • META options are American style and the underlying may pay a dividend. Each expiry is priced off its own forward from put-call parity, and gamma is Black-Scholes on that forward. Deep in-the-money contracts near a dividend are the weak spot.
  • Every figure is dollars of dealer delta per 1% move in META, the unit that compares across symbols.
  • There is no tape-signed book on this page. That book exists only where a live engine runs.

Questions

What does it mean that META is above its flip?

Net dealer gamma on this book is positive, so hedging flows tend to lean against a move. It says nothing about direction.

Why are there two books?

Open interest is positioning as it stood at the last close. Volume is what traded today. When they disagree, that split is the reading.

Is this a trading signal?

No. We tested wall touches and flip crosses on SPX across more than a thousand sessions and found no edge that survives costs. These are measurements of where hedging concentrates.

How is this different from the SPX terminal?

SPX runs on a live engine: every second, with a third book signed print by print from the trade tape. This page is rebuilt from chain snapshots and carries the two conventional books only.