The current chain-level call/put ratio returned is 0.63 , not 0.96: put activity is materially heavier than call activity. If you are seeing 0.96 elsewhere, it likely reflects a different timestamp, expiry set, or calculation method. A 0.96 ratio alone would be broadly balanced with a slight put tilt—not decisively bearish.
The largest recent directional trades were concentrated in long-dated put buys on 2026-11-05:
2,000 Jan-2027 $350 puts bought for about US$3.39m premium-equivalent notional.
3,000 Apr-2027 $280 puts bought for about US$1.53m .
1,200 Mar-2027 $320 puts bought for about US$1.06m . These may be outright downside views, but their long tenor and strikes below spot also make institutional hedging a plausible interpretation—not necessarily a prediction of an immediate selloff.
Short-dated flows were mixed: there were purchases of $350 and $365 calls