On Wednesday we saw another near record day on the CBOE equity put/call ratio, reaching 1.46 which is the highest level since 1997. Just a week prior on Wednesday we saw the same ratio hit 1.3, which was the highest since the Great Financial Crisis in 2008.
Single stock options skew remains heavy toward put premium, meaning a lot more bearish bets and hedges are being put on single stocks lately. It will be interesting if today's monthly OpEx impacts that positioning.